Banned Scholars Project

We stumble through 2024 in search of new political coordinates. Long gone is the myth of the end of history, and today we instead confront sharp questions about the fraught tangle of race, class, and gender. Explosive struggles against racist police brutality and colonial domination worldwide remind us that the work of the past remains largely unfinished. Our moment needs urgent decoding, and we have no Rosetta Stone better suited to the task than W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction. This presentation, the product of a forthcoming collective volume on Du Bois' text, provides a...