Dylann Roof

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• SOURCE: Vice
  2-11-18
  

  The Scholar Helping America Grapple with Its Ugly History

  Historian Keisha N. Blain knows Donald Trump and Dylann Roof didn't come out of nowhere.

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• 6-14-16
  

  Reflecting on the Charleston Syllabus One Year Later

  by Chad Williams, Kidada Williams and Keisha N. Blain

  How 3 educators tried to put the Charleston massacre into historical perspective online.

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  5-25-16
  

  The Anomaly of Dylann Roof

  White-on-black murders rarely result in a death sentence. Roof might be an exception.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  9-6-15
  

  After Dylann Roof, Ken Burns's Civil War documentary seems flawed

  by Christopher Dickey

  As Eric Foner noted at the time it was released, it largely overlooks the cause of the Civil War:  slavery.

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• 7-26-15
  

  Charleston and the Amok Syndrome

  by Thomas Fleming

  While there is a connection to the so-called Lost Cause on the surface of Dylann Roof’s disturbed mind, it is not an explanation for the tragedy. The reason for the bloodshed is psychiatric, not racial or political.

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• SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
  7-6-15
  

  Charleston Shooting Exposes America’s Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past

  by R. Joseph Parrott

  To win friends during the Cold War Rhodesia and South Africa, playing up its anti-communism, courted the white south.

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• 7-3-15
  

  The Persistence of Myth in Southern Politics and Life

  by Ron Briley

  The notion that the Civil War and Reconstruction were foisted upon a defenseless South by a tyrannical central government retains considerable influence in a Southern ideology of persecution.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  6-26-15
  

  Bring down the Confederate flag, not memory of Civil War fallen

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  In the wake of the Charleston murders, the campaign against the Confederate flag has morphed into attacks on other historical vestiges of the Confederacy itself. And anyone who cares about history should be alarmed by that.

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• 6-16-15
  

  Dylann Roof Was No Lone Madman

  by Randall Law

  He was a terrorist and he has plenty of company.

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• 6-26-15
  

  It’s Not the Old South that Died this Week. It Was the New South.

  by Glenda Gilmore

  Now it’s time for a new New South.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6-26-15
  

  South Carolina’s warped public display of its white-supremacist history confronts South Carolinians, white and black, with a stark message about who rules the state.

  by Eric Foner

  The burgeoning movement to take down the Confederate flag in South Carolina and other states is an important first step. Even after it is gone, however, the public display of history in South Carolina will remain biased and one-dimensional.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  6-24-15
  

  How The South Lost The War But Won The Narrative

  by Tony Horwitz

  Furling the statehouse flag may bring temporary relief to South Carolinians, but what we truly need to bury is the gauzy fiction that the antebellum South was in any way benign, or that slavery and white supremacy weren’t the cornerstone of the Confederacy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-24-15
  

  Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll Than Jihadists in U.S. Since 9/11

  A count by a research center found that non-Muslim extremists have been far more lethal than Islamic militants on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, running counter to public perception.

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• 6-24-15
  

  The Long Campaign by White Supremacists to “Take Our Country Back”

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  The Civil War ended one hundred and fifty years ago this month. Instead of taking our country back, isn’t it time to take it forward?

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed
  6-23-15
  

  Chad Williams Crowdsources a Syllabus on the Charleston Shootings

  What prompted him? Public conversations about the shooting were generally devoid of the kind of historical knowledge that frames contemporary racial violence and its deep roots. Twitter's helping.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6-23-15 (accessed)
  

  Terrorism in Charleston

  by Jelani Cobb

  Beneath this philological fracas lay a truth evident to political speechwriters, eulogists, and news anchors: in times of tragedy, language matters.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-22-15
  

  The Charleston shooting shows the growing globalization of white nationalism

  by Morris Dees and J. Richard Cohen

  Americans tend to view attacks like the mass murder in Charleston as isolated hate crimes, but many are connected to a broader movement, says the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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• 6-22-15
  

  Hard Truths We Have to Face in the Wake of Charleston include the Gender and Race of the Shooter

  by Karen Garner

  If we can’t control ourselves, we should control our guns.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-21-15
  

  S.C. Killer Dylann Roof’s Segregation Inspiration: The Council of Conservative Citizens and the Politicians Who Pander to Them

  When Dylann Roof discovered the Council of Conservative Citizens and was radicalized, he was tapping into a deep history of Southern racism.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6-21-15
  

  Was the Co-Founder of Charleston's Emanuel Church a Victim of Racist Paranoia, Too?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Some have speculated that Roof chose the historic black church—and even the date of his horrific deed—because it was co-founded by Denmark Vesey, a former slave who was hanged for planning to lead a slave revolt in Charleston on June 16, 1822.