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Eric Beckman

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2025 Reading Goal

26% complete! Eric Beckman has read 7 of 26 books.

Jefferson Cowie: Freedom's Dominion

As Reconstruction played out, freedom proved to be zero-sum: any increase in Black freedom meant a decrease in white freedom. Anything that challenged white prerogatives was understood as the path to Balck domination. To speak of emancipation today without historicizing and understanding efforts by whites to recapture their freedom to dominate, without seeing how emancipation of African Americans was made into the oppression of whites, is to fail to understand a central problem of American history."

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Adam Ewing: The Age of Garvey No rating

interesting, rewarding read. Ewing argues that we need to look beyond the spectacular rise and stumble of Garvey and the Black Star Line to the deep influence of his ideas in the US and in Africa. Garvey and his movement embraced a less confrontational but very determined response to White supremacy that nurtured resistance to colonialism in Africa and White surpremacy in the US.