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New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie writes: "I return to Du Bois, even as I read more recent work, because he offers a framework that is useful, I think, for
Lessons are to be learned from the post-civil war era to the contemporary struggle for liberation and social justice African American History Month Series No. 3 During the period of the enslavement of African people by Britain and the United States, violence was a key instrument in the maintenance of…
April 19, 2021 • Jay Cephas on “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America”
Installation view of “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.
IN 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published
Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. Coming in at just under eight hundred pages, Du Bois’s “essay” served to carefully delineate the role of African Americans in the social, political, and economic restructuring of the United States following the devastation of the Civil War. In many ways, the artists, architects, and designers included in “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in