Reading Black Reconstruction Today

Yousuf Al-Bulushi is Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City. Geo Maher is founding Coordinator of the W. E. B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction in Philadelphia, and author of Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance. Damien M. Sojoyner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums.

• Contents  Introduction: Black Reconstruction as a Portal Yousuf Al-Bulushi and Damien Sojoyner Part I • Dismantling Propaganda, Past and Present 1 • Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and the History of Twenty-First-Century Propaganda Gerald Horne and Tionne Alliyah Parris 2 • The Incessant Propaganda of American Historiography Joshua Myers 3 • The Propaganda of the Present in South Africa Richard Pithouse Part II • Indigeneity, Fascism, and Abolition Democracy 4 • The War That Ended Reconstruction Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 5 • The Shape of Fear: Racial Fascism and the Counterrevolutions of Property Alberto Toscano 6 • Abolition Democracy in and out of Philadelphia Jasmine Noelle YarishPart III • Global Imperialism and the Dark Proletariat7 • Black Reconstruction in Palestine/Israel: On the Wages of Jewishness Zahi Zalloua8 • Black Reconstruction in (Latin) America Geo Maher9 • From Du Bois to Cabral: “Portuguese” Africa and the Color Line António Tomás10 • “A Common History and a Common Disaster”: Du Boisian Diasporic Politics in the Black Mediterranean Camilla HawthornePart IV • The General Strike11 • Wake Up: Social Reproduction, Modular Prison Technology, and the Y2K General Strike Orisanmi Burton12 • Proletarian Organization and the Black General Strike Joshua CloverPart V • Conversations on Abolition, Repair, and Reconstruction Today 13 • The Beautiful Struggle: The Abolition of the Prison-Industrial Complex. An Interview with Rachel Herzing Rachel Herzing and Damien Sojoyner14 • Social Antagonisms/Abolitionist Tensions. An Interview with Ant Smith of the W. E. B. Du Bois Movement School Ant Smith and Geo Maher15 • The Limits of Propaganda: Unmasking Fabricated Truths and Moving Beyond Hardened Beliefs. An Interview with Tiffany Willoughby-HerardTiffany Willoughby-Herard, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, and Damien SojoynerConclusion: Black Reconstruction as Rosetta Stone Geo MaherAcknowledgments Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index