Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 - Brossura

Du Bois, W. E. B.; Levering Lewis, David

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ISBN 10: 0199385653 ISBN 13: 9780199385652

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2014

Riassunto

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.

Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Its greatest achievement is weaving a credible, lyrical historical narrative of the hostile and politically fraught years of 1860-1880 with a powerful critical analysis of the harmful effects of democracy, including Jim Crow laws and other injustices. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by David Levering Lewis, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

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L'autore:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).

Contenuti:

• Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign
• Introduction
• To the Reader
• I. The Black Worker
• II. The White Worker
• III. The Planter
• IV. The General Strike
• V. The Coming of the Lord
• VI. Looking Backward
• VII. Looking Forward
• VIII. The Transubstantiation of a Poor White
• IX. The Price of Disaster
• X. The Black Proletariat in South Carolina
• XI. The Black Proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana
• XII. The White Proletariat in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
• XIII. The Duel for Labor Control on Border and Frontier
• XIV. Counter-Revolution of Propery
• XV. Founding the Public School
• XVI. Back Toward Slavery
• XVII. The Propaganda of History
• Bibliography
• Index
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology
• Selected Bibliography

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199385653
• ISBN 13: 9780199385652
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 672
• Redattore: Gates Jr. Henry Louis