Gregory Williams
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I am a seminary-trained educator and community organizer based in Durham, NC. I have a BA in Honors history from the University of British Columbia and a Masters of Divinity (the degree usually given to those discerning religious vocations) from Yale. I am passionate about ideas and discussing history, politics, or religion with new and different people.
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Answered a Question in Crusade for Justice
Chapter 1, "The Case Stated," gives Wells-Barnett's reasons for publishing the details of lynching and also her understanding of why lynching takes place. These two themes are closely related.... -
Answered a Question in Custer Died for Your Sins
Deloria’s argument in the chapter “Anthropologists and Other Friends” is not, primarily, about institutional ethics. While his suggestion that anthropologists should have to gain the permission of... -
Answered a Question in Custer Died for Your Sins
It can be helpful to look at the context on this page. Just a few paragraphs down, Deloria writes: Behind each successful man stands a woman and behind each policy and program with which Indians... -
Answered a Question in History
Disagreements over slavery between the North and the South had largely been deferred during the War of Independence and the formative decades of the U.S. However, during the first half of the... -
Answered a Question in The Tyger
"The Tyger" by William Blake is a major example of the Romantic Movement's reaction against the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment. Enlightenment authors had exalted "Man" and, in particular,... -
Answered a Question in The Time Machine
The book The Time Machine is, for the most part, a frame-story: that is, a story-within-a-story. The original narrator tells that he has met a man, known to readers simply as "the Time Traveller,"... -
Answered a Question in The Souls of Black Folk
Along with Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois is often considered one of the founders of sociology. Each of these authors contributed something unique to the discipline. For Marx, it was a... -
Answered a Question in Colonial Government and Politics
Between the start of the "age of discovery" in the mid-1400s and the independence of most of the last major European colonies after World War II, European powers like Spain, Portugal, France, Great... -
Answered a Question in The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow tracks the ways that United States' law and custom has evolved from the Civil War to the present to maintain what Michelle Alexander calls America's "racial caste system" in... -
Answered a Question in Latin American History
Mexico formally gained independence from Spain after a protracted war that lasted from 1810 to 1821 and is now known as the Mexican War of Independence. However, Spanish power in the region had... -
Answered a Question in Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography tells the story of one of the most important leaders of the black power movement of the 1960s and 70s. In order to understand the book, it is crucial to understand some of...