This is the eighth episode of our 12-part series Reading Black Reconstruction with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 8 are:

• Ch. 8: A Poor White esp. 237-244, bottom 251-254, 259, bottom 319-322.
• Ch. 9: “The Price of Disaster” esp. 325-330, 336, 345-347, 352-354, 357-359, 378-379

Study Questions for Episode 8 are:

• Why did it matter that Johnson was “a poor white,” and what did it mean to say that he was transformed?
• What was the price of disaster? Why did America refuse to pay? Why does Du Bois say the country still suffers from this refusal.

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!

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