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- Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 (1935) was an important Marxist interpretation of Reconstruction (the period following the American Civil War during which the seceded Southern states were reorganized according to the wishes of Congress), and, more significantly, it provided the first synthesis of existing knowledge of the role of Blacks in that critical period of American history.
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By W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates. 2021. 1097 pages. Originally published in 1935, Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction was the first book to challenge the prevailing racist historical narrative of the era and in sharp, incisive prose, tell the story of the Civil War and Reconstruction from the perspective of African ...
Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 is a history of the Reconstruction era by W. E. B. Du Bois, first published in 1935. The book challenged the standard academic view of Reconstruction at the time, the Dunning School ...
Next, Lemert summarizes the main themes of Black Reconstruction and relates Du Bois to Karl Marx's theory of capitalism. He then interprets Black Reconstruction through a deconstructive lens focusing on the implicit conceptions of history and History in Du Bois's book.
Jan 29, 2017 · W.E.B. Du Bois's massive essay about the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Du Bois argues that the period represented an potential revolutionary moment in which the southern black population played an active and crucial role. Submitted by Reddebrek on January 29, 2017.
Oct 25, 2017 · Black Reconstruction in America. Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Edited By W. E. B. Du Bois. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2012. eBook Published 24 October 2017. Pub. Location New York. Imprint Routledge. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147413. Pages 684.
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Jul 1, 2013 · Standard View. PDF. Share. Tools. While largely ignored by the historical profession when published in 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America has come to be regarded as a landmark of historical scholarship and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the era of Civil War and Reconstruction.
Presented here in an authoritative, annotated edition, Black Reconstruction is joined for the first time with important writings that trace the evolution of Du Bois’s thinking about Reconstruction and its centrality in understanding the embattled course of democracy in America.
