Between Reparations and Freedom | A Masterclass with Rinaldo Walcott

What does it mean to still be in the age of the long emancipation? Have African Americans, and the African diaspora in the New World more broadly, attained true freedom or merely emancipation? Are reparations the first step to graduating out of emancipation where a more equitable society can finally be constructed? Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Chair of the Department of Africana and American Studies at the University of Buffalo, visits the From Slavery to Freedom Lab at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to teach this masterclass derived heavily from his recent book, The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom (Duke University Press).