Reading Black Reconstruction Today.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Al-Bulushi, Yousuf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Abolitionists--United States.

Abolitionists.

Local Subjects:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.

Contents:

Front cover

Luminos page

Gund imprint

Publisher Acknowledgment

Half title page

Title page

Dedication page

Copyright page

Contents

Introduction: Black Reconstruction as a Portal

Part I - Dismantling Propaganda, Past and Present

Chapter 1 - Du Bois's Black Reconstruction and the History of Twenty-First-Century Propaganda

Chapter 2 - The Incessant Propaganda of American Historiography

Chapter 3 - The Propaganda of the Present in South Africa

Part II - Indigeneity, Fascism, and Abolition Democracy

Chapter 4 - The War That Ended Reconstruction

Chapter 5 - The Shape of Fear

Chapter 6 - Abolition Democracy in and out of Philadelphia

Part III - Global Imperialism and the Dark Proletariat

Chapter 7 - Black Reconstruction in Palestine/Israel

Chapter 8 - Black Reconstruction in (Latin) America

Chapter 9 - From Du Bois to Cabral

Chapter 10 - "A Common History and a Common Disaster"

Part IV - The General Strike

Chapter 11 - Wake Up

Chapter 12 - Proletarian Organization and the Black General Strike

Part V - Conversations on Abolition, Repair, and Reconstruction Today

Chapter 13 - The Beautiful Struggle

Chapter 14 - Social Antagonisms / Abolitionist Tensions

Chapter 15 - The Limits of Propaganda

Conclusion: Black Reconstruction as Rosetta Stone

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Back cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Al-Bulushi, Yousuf Reading Black Reconstruction Today

ISBN:

9780520431003

OCLC:

1602629082