After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced,
navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the
global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and
the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.
Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the
Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress
Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century
historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels,
convergences, and differences between the exceptional "long 2020",
while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History. Providing
context for the entire volume, After Life's Introduction explains
how COVID-19 and America's long history of inequality, combined
with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of
the darkest times in our nation's history. Discussing the rise of
the COVID-19 death toll in the United States, eventually exceeding
the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War, it ties public
health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and
epidemics together, and provides a short history of the Black Lives
Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third
Reconstruction. After Life documents how Americans have dealt with
grief, pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we
endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our
suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a
nation of survivors-with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society
in a more equitable way. Contributors include: Gwendolyn Hall,
Heather Ann Thompson, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Keith Ellison, Keri
Leigh Merritt, Martha Hodes, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Mary L. Dudziak,
Monica Munoz Martinez, Peniel E. Joseph, Philip J. Deloria, Rhae
Lynn Barnes, Robert L. Tsai, Robin D. G. Kelley, Scott
Poulson-Bryant, Stephen Berry, Tera W. Hunter, Ula Y. Taylor, and,
Yohuru Williams.
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