Reading Black Reconstruction Today

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We are living through a period of perpetual crises and explosive struggles for liberation on a global scale. This transdisciplinary collection explores what W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking 1935 work, Black Reconstruction in America, tells us about repression and resistance across the world, asking: What do abolition and reconstruction mean today? What would it take for these concepts to become a global reality? How can we make sense of our political moment, from the resurgence of Black consciousness across the Americas, to the rise of neofascism in Europe and beyond, to the fight against land dispossession in Africa? Reading "Black Reconstruction" Today draws together a group of leading scholars and activists to explore the lasting relevance of Du Bois's political masterwork.

Yousuf Al-Bulushi is Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City.
 
Geo Maher is founding Coordinator of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction in Philadelphia, and author of Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance.
 
Damien M. Sojoyner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and author of Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums.