The third reconstruction : America's struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
323.1196/JOSEPH,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, 2022
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
v, 277 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781541600744, 1541600746 :, 1541600746, 9781541600744
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Peniel Joseph offers a powerful new interpretation of recent American history. The summer of 2020, he argues, marked the climax of nothing less than a Third Reconstruction: a new period of intense struggle to secure citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that sought to transform America after the US Civil War and during the civil rights era. America's first and second Reconstructions failed to achieve their largest aims. But our Third Reconstruction, Joseph writes, offers an opportunity we must seize"--