The Third Reconstruction
America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Peniel Joseph has become a public intellectual capable of reaching the masses with clear eyed prose and unmuddled analysis. Much like he did in his work, The Sword and The Shield, he makes it plain and therefore accessible to those outside the halls of academia. Here he makes the case that the 2008......more

Listened to in car on a road trip from Texas to South Carolina and back. Passing through the South while listening to history about the South, you can see the effect of the fights people were going through and the benefits as well as the losses of those fights. The Book was interesting. Chapters are......more

Joseph successfully connects current events with those of the Civil Rights movment in the mid-twentieth century and Reconstruction in the late-nineteenth. In doing so, he crafts a framework from which to consider today's events and the possibilities before us. He tends to labor through anecdotes as......more

I've read this book for a book group and I'm glad I've got others to talk with about this work as it's got a lot of information and opinion in it that is difficult to sort through on your own. Having read a number of books about racism in the past couple of years, I wonder if we'll ever get past it......more

Fantastic book that reminds us of all of the work that is still so necessarty to move forward as a society.......more