{"id":7033,"date":"2015-03-30T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T16:16:37","slug":"behind-the-archives-door-event-from-jackson-state-to-ferguson-memory-and-erasure-in-the-history-of-racial-violence-tues-april-7-4-p-m-second-floor-collins-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/behind-the-archives-door-event-from-jackson-state-to-ferguson-memory-and-erasure-in-the-history-of-racial-violence-tues-april-7-4-p-m-second-floor-collins-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Archives Door event: &#8220;From Jackson State to Ferguson: Memory and Erasure in the History of Racial Violence&#8221; &#8211; Tues., April 7, 4 p.m., Second Floor Collins Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7035\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/03\/CALLOUT_MichaelBrownMemory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7035\" class=\"wp-image-7035\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/03\/CALLOUT_MichaelBrownMemory.jpg\" alt=\"CALLOUT_MichaelBrownMemory\" width=\"313\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/03\/CALLOUT_MichaelBrownMemory.jpg 406w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/03\/CALLOUT_MichaelBrownMemory-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold up roses while protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown on Aug. 18, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nancy Bristow, History, African American Studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>April 7, 2014<br \/>\n<\/strong>4 p.m.<br \/>\nArchives &amp; Special Collections area,<br \/>\n2nd Floor, Collins Library<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asked in August, 2014, whether the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri \u201craises important issues about race that need to be discussed,\u201d 80% of African Americans said \u201cyes,\u201d while 47% of white Americans believed \u201crace is getting more attention than it deserves.\u201d\u00a0 These statistics make visible the divergent historical memories of two American communities and the powerful erasure silence around race makes possible.\u00a0 Focusing on the police shootings that took place at Jackson State College forty-five years ago, Professor Nancy Bristow will situate the recent events in Ferguson and beyond in the nation\u2019s long history of state violence against African Americans and will explore the white community\u2019s persistent unwillingness to acknowledge and address its racial dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/2015\/02\/17\/behind-the-archives-door-series-spring-2015-events\/\"><em>Behind the Archives Door<\/em><\/a> series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Bristow, History, African American Studies. April 7, 2014 4 p.m. Archives &amp; Special Collections area, 2nd Floor, Collins Library Asked in August, 2014, whether the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri \u201craises important issues about race that need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/behind-the-archives-door-event-from-jackson-state-to-ferguson-memory-and-erasure-in-the-history-of-racial-violence-tues-april-7-4-p-m-second-floor-collins-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}