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"'Burning Down the House': Race, Media, and the Burning of Churches in the U.S., 1996-2001" - a presentation by Doug McAdam
Tuesday September 11, 2007 at 4:00pm
Anderson Hall 350, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
257 19th Avenue SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Get Directions
Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Department of Sociology. Part of the Sociology Workshop Series

Between 1996 and 2001, the National Church Arson Task Force reported 1,062 arson attacks on churches. Of these, 338 targeted black churches. Doug McAdam, using a mix of methods, will discuss county-level variation in the burning of black churches and the role the media may have played in shaping the church burning "epidemic." Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He will be in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study September 4-14.
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