Conversation

"America itself has a dual identity, reflecting warring ideas about citizenship, freedom, and democracy. There is the America that we might call reconstructionist, home to champions of racial democracy, and there is the America that we might call redemptionist, a country that papers over racial, class, and gender hierarchies through an allegiance to white supremacy."

Peniel E Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century