02000cam a2200373 i 4500 605049552 TxGeo 20220909120000.0 220428s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022020255 9781541600744 hbk. 1541600746 hbk. TxGeo rda Joseph, Peniel E, author. The third reconstruction : America's struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century / Peniel Joseph. America's struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century. First edition. New York, NY : Basic Books, 2022. v, 277 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Peniel Joseph offers a powerful new interpretation of recent American history. The summer of 2020, he argues, marked the climax of nothing less than a Third Reconstruction: a new period of intense struggle to secure citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that sought to transform America after the US Civil War and during the civil rights era. America's first and second Reconstructions failed to achieve their largest aims. But our Third Reconstruction, Joseph writes, offers an opportunity we must seize"-- Provided by publisher. 20220909. African Americans Social conditions 21st century. African Americans Civil rights History 21st century. Racism United States. Racial justice United States History 21st century. United States Politics and government 2009-2017. United States Politics and government 2017-2021. United States Race relations. QS5