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Mentioned in 15 episodes

Black reconstruction

Book • 1935

Published in 1935, 'Black Reconstruction in America' challenges the dominant views of the time by portraying the Reconstruction period as a critical time of Black advancement and a near-revolution of anti-racism and societal change.

Du Bois argues that African Americans were active agents of their emancipation and that the period was a second American revolution aimed at democratizing the South.

The book critiques traditional historians' views and highlights the significance of African American agency in building U.S.

democracy, despite the ultimate failure of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow laws.

Mentioned by

Richard Gilman Opalski

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Mentioned in 15 episodes

Erwähnt von

Jason Stanley

als ein Buch, das eine Vergangenheit von den Vereinigten Staaten beschreibt, wo arme Weißen und arme Schwarzen in einer Arbeiterbewegung zusammengekommen sind.

52 snips

#795 - Philosoph Jason Stanley über Faschismus in den USA

Mentioned by

Corey Robin

as another source frequently cited by Clarence Thomas.

35 snips

What Clarence Thomas really thinks

Recommended by

Nikole Hannah-Jones

as essential reading for understanding American history.

21 snips

From Opinion: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Story We Tell About America

Mentioned by

Paul North

when discussing Marx's views on the American Civil War.

19 snips

A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"

Mentioned by

Richard Gilman Opalski

in the context of a discussion about the role of imagination in struggles against oppression.

17 snips

Marxism, Anarchism, and the Power of Communist Imagination: Richard Gilman-Opalsky on Utopia and Revolution

Mentioned by

Nancy Fraser

when discussing the concept of an expanded working class.

17 snips

Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism

Mentioned by Will in the context of revolutionary history and its repetition, comparing it to C.L.R. James's work.

13 snips

104 | Does History Have a Repetition Compulsion?

Mentioned by

Ta-Nehisi Coates

to illustrate that the role of a writer is not to win elections but to describe the world truthfully.

11 snips

Ta-Nehisi Coates on why stories matter in the age of Trump

Recommended by

Martijn van Tilborgh

for its opening song, relating to the reconstruction theme.

Martijn van Tilborgh / New Wine, New Wineskins: A Union Approach to Rethinking Church

Mentioned by

Ross Wolfe

in reference to W.E.B Du Bois and his approach to US History.

The Rise of Neo-Stalinism (Ft. Ross Wolfe)

Erwähnt von

Nancy Fraser

im Kontext der Diskussion über eine erweiterte Arbeiterklasse und die Notwendigkeit einer breiteren Perspektive auf Arbeit.

S03E29 - Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism

Mentioned by

Corey Robin

as the author of 'Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution', frequently cited by Clarence Thomas.

What Clarence Thomas really thinks

Mentioned by

Nick Estes

as using Marx's language from Capital to argue that Reconstruction laws enforced equality.

Pod Kapital #1: Seeing the Monster

Mentioned by

Ryan Holiday

as one of

Allen C. Guelzo

's books.

Historian Allen C. Guelzo on Hard Choices and Robert E. Lee

Mentioned by

Annette Gordon-Reed

to illustrate the grim picture of violence during the Reconstruction era in Texas.

BFW Revisited: On Juneteenth

Mentioned by

Kevin Bellack

as one of

Rosamund Dean

's books that would be discussed in the episode.

Rosamund Dean: Mindful Drinking

Mentioned by

Mark Anthony Neal

when discussing Abraham Lincoln's role and motivations during the Civil War.

What is Juneteenth?

Mentioned by

Gio Maher

as one of the most important books to understand US history and how race and class operate within American capitalism.

W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction

Mentioned by Dr. Schermerhorn when talking about the setbacks after the Civil Rights Revolution.

Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)

Recommended by

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

as a book about the Reconstruction era after the Civil War.

The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)

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