INSTRUCTORS: Reena Goldthree, Annelise Orleck, and Julia Rabig

WEEKLY LEARNING GOALS

1. To develop historical interpretations of Ferguson that consider:
   • Housing, policing, labor, and tax policies that produce and reinforce racial inequality
   • Recent activism in Ferguson in the context of a longer history of organizing against inequality and resistance to state violence by black communities in the greater St. Louis area
2. To be able to define structural racism with reference to concrete historical examples
3. To develop historical analysis and interpretive skills through an in-class exercise with primary sources

READINGS

• Marilynn Johnson, Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City (Beacon: 2003), Chapter 8, Conclusion
• Jason Sokol, “The Unreconstructed North,” New York Times, December 4, 2015 (Links to an external site.).
• Clarence Lang, Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-1975 (University of Michigan Press, 2009), Chapters 4 (97-126), 6 (155-185), 8 (217-244)
• Walter Johnson, “Fergonomics,” The Atlantic (theatlantic.com) forthcoming Spring