(re)Thinking Reconstruction w/ Dr. Greg Carr

Africa World Now Project · Sep 19, 2018 · 1h

Reconstruction, the period so named after the U.S. Civil War, is a period that in its totality is a clear articulation of the lasting implications of settler colonialism. Take the conceptualization of ‘reconstruction’ itself. This concept implies an implicit notion of equality, collectivism, cooperation, rebuilding, togetherness, democracy, so on and so forth. W. E. B. Du Bois writing in a chapter titled, “The Propaganda of History” in his seminal work Black Reconstruction argues that: “the facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed…