Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois

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.Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. 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.

In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.īlack Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. 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. 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 was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community.

An extensive bibliography, written by the author, of texts on the Reconstruction, with notes regarding historical accuracy.

Du Bois texts, including his own works, collections, bibliographies, biographies, and critical works Du Bois's life, compiled by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Terri Hume Oliver

A series introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

A specially commissioned introductory essay by David Levering Lewis, a top scholar of African American Studies at New York University.

The series introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is included in every volume. Each volume features a specially commissioned introductory essay by a top scholar of African American Studies.

This is volume six in the 19-volume complete literary works by W.E.B.

Du Bois, and Introduction by David Levering Lewis Du Bois) An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 Edited by Henry Louis Gates,Jr.

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