We Built This Thing! Reparations, Labor Acknowledgements, and the power of the Black City

This article explores and expounds upon Joe Trotter Jr.’s concept of the Black City. In so doing, this article details the national reparations movement and how it overlaps with the features and purposes of Trotter’s framework. The article closes by pairing Trotter’s powerful insights within the seven fold radical reparative apparatus and the import of labor acknowledgements as an untapped form of social repair.