Abolition School Radio

Class 1: Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher


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In the first episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher, we will introduce the book and its contexts.

Readings for Episode 1 are:

  • “To the Reader”
  • Ch. 17: “The Propaganda of History,” esp. 721-728

Study Questions for Episode 1 are:

  • Who does Du Bois write Black Reconstruction for, and who is it not for?
  • What is propaganda, and is he a propagandist? A historian? A prophet?

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

Based in Philadelphia, the Du Bois Movement School provides revolutionary abolitionist, internationalist, intersectional, and participatory political education to a new generation of aspiring organizers and leaders. We believe everyone is an intellectual, and that there can be no abolition of carceral institutions without a broad process of social reconstruction. We study the world to change it!

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent book publisher and political education institution based in Chicago. Visit haymarketbooks.org to find radical books, virtual events, podcasts, and other political education resources, including the other seasons of Abolition School Radio.

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