
To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston
…apital and bodies in the work of black emancipation. We must remember that Denmark Vesey was a founder of Emanuel: there is a legacy of unfounded white violence against this church. The Emanuel tragedy reminds the world that black revolutionary spaces—places committed to black beauty, intelligence, agency, creativity and freedom—have always been targets for racist violence. Even when self-images and self-awareness were incubated in urban poverty,…
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