The neo-Redemption Era? APD in the age of #Black lives matter

The Black Lives Movement reflects the latest stage in the United States’ racial orders. The Civil Rights State, much like the Reconstruction Period, faces significant political, institutional and ideational challenges from those who would seek to impose new kinds of inequalities along long-standing lines of racial, ethnic and gender identities. Theories of APD can be useful in tracing both how these new challenges can be identified, and how new forms of resistance can be recognized and supported. By looking at the first Redemption Era and the role it played in laying the foundation for the Jim Crow order, we can identify where and how movements like BLM can challenge efforts to create and sustain a possible neo-Redemption era.