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May 5, 2014 · Internet Archive. Language. English. Originally published under title: Black reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1935. Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-737) and index. Presents the pioneering work in the study of the role of African Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential black intellectual of his time.
Accordingly, Black Reconstruction foregrounds several recurring Du Boisian themes: the role of African American agency in the building of the U.S.A. and the significance of promoting African American equality and freedom in order to achieve the promise of democracy.
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 ...
Jan 29, 2017 · Black Reconstruction in America: 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.
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 Americans. Time Periods: 18th Century, 19th Century, 1850, 1865, 1877.
Oct 24, 2017 · Du Bois, W.E.B. (Ed.). (2012). Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147413
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.
