(Note: Some readers may find some of the stories in this syllabus or the photos used to illustrate them disturbing. We have now updated this story with tagging for easier navigation to related content, will be continually updating this page with more stories, and are working to acquire a bibliographic reading list about institutionalized racism in the near future. As always, the underlying scholarship is free for all readers. The following articles, published over the course of JSTOR Daily’s five years try to provide such context. This context seems vital for discussions both inside and outside the classroom. Hamilton in their 1967 book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America-is what connects George Floyd and Breonna Taylor with Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Emmett Till, and the thousands of other people who have been killed because they were “ black in America.” Institutional racism-a term coined by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Charles V.

Educators everywhere are asking how can we help students understand that this was not an isolated, tragic incident perpetrated by a few bad individuals, but part of a broader pattern of institutionalized racism. The United States has seen escalating protests over the past week, following the death of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police.

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