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  • "When Joel moves to envision reparations, he does so with the two ingredients essential to social change—idealism and pragmatism... May the Spirit renew your mind as you read it, and may it help grow a movement for a Third Reconstruction in our time.”

    William Barber II

    Yale University, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign
    and Author of The Third Reconstruction

  • “Rebirth of a Nation charts the story of how the United States consistently has failed to become a true democracy, both in terms of its policy and ideological development. It also points forcefully toward the crucial steps that must be taken to reverse that failure and produce a racially fair and just society.”

    William Darity, Jr.

    Duke University,
    Co-Author of From Here to Equality:
    Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century

  • “Rebirth of a Nation makes a powerful case for historical reckoning in America. Goza’s faith in, and bearing witness to the beauty of, Black resistance to systemic oppression reminds us that the soul of this nation can and must be redeemed. Everyone should read this book.”

    Khalil Gibran Muhammad

    Harvard University,
    Author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race,
    Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

  • “Rebirth of a Nation is simultaneously thought-provoking, somber, enraging, yet surprisingly hopeful. Goza powerfully and convincingly calls for reparations as a key pathway from our historical and current state of systemic racial inequality and injustice.”

    Carol Anderson

    Emory University,
    NYT-Bestselling Author of White Rage:
    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Rebirth of a Nation

Reparations and Remaking America

In Rebirth of a Nation, Joel Edward Goza makes the case that reparations are necessary to realize racial justice and restore our democracy. In a narrative driven historical survey, Goza exposes lesser-known aspects of our racist past, drawing a clear line from slavery to Jim Crow to the destruction of Black lives today. But Rebirth of a Nation is not merely about accountability. It is also about hope. Goza shows that by embracing a process of reparations and the wisdom of the Black Freedom Movement, we can place the United States on a path of healing. 

America's Unholy Ghosts

"America’s Unholy Ghosts is a paradigm shifter. This book fundamentally reorients our understanding of race, faith, politics, and our intellectual heroes. You will see the world differently after reading this book. A tour de force."

- Michael O. Emerson, Author of Divided by Faith

 

Joel has given us a major and thoughtful contribution to the anti racism movement.

— Gerald Horne – activist and author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America