• Home
  • Alumni Interviews
  • Audio
  • Black Student Alliance Files
  • Events
  • Pride Magazine 2019 Issues
  • Video

Black Fire

~ at UVA

Black Fire

Daily Archives: August 7, 2018

New Book: Charlottesville 2017

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

Posted by claudrena in Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment

Nelson&Harold_Cover_CL-9780813941899

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the University of Virginia’s expansive community, many of whose members are involved in teaching issues of racism, public art, free speech, and social ethics. In the wake of this momentous incident, scholars, educators, and researchers have come together in this important new volume to thoughtfully reflect on the historic events of August 11 and 12, 2017.

How should we respond to the moral and ethical challenges of our times? What are our individual and collective responsibilities in advancing the principles of democracy and justice? Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity brings together the work of these UVA faculty members catalyzed by last summer’s events to examine their community’s history more deeply and more broadly. Their essays—ranging from John Mason on the local legacy of the Lost Cause to Leslie Kendrick on free speech to Rachel Wahl on the paradoxes of activism—examine truth telling, engaged listening, and ethical responses, and aim to inspire individual reflection, as well as to provoke considered and responsible dialogue. This prescient new collection is a conversation that understands and owns America’s past and—crucially—shows that our past is very much part of our present.

Contributors: Asher D. Biemann * Gregory B. Fairchild * Risa Goluboff * Bonnie Gordon * Claudrena N. Harold * Willis Jenkins * Leslie Kendrick * John Edwin Mason * Guian McKee * Louis P. Nelson * P. Preston Reynolds * Frederick Schauer * Elizabeth R. Varon * Rachel Wahl * Lisa Woolfork

Black Fire at UVA

Black Fire: a multimedia initiative documenting the struggle for social justice and racial equality at the University of Virginia.

Recent Posts

  • 2022 Commencement Address
  • Pride Screening at Glasgow Short Film Festival in March
  • On the set of “Gospel Hill”
  • Black Life Presents: Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s UVA Black Fire Films 
  • Pride will screen at the Chicago International Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival

EVENTS

August 2018
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Jun   Sep »

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • Black Fire
    • Join 30 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Black Fire
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...