W.e.b. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (loa #350) - An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Playe in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-188 (Du Bois W.E.B.)(Pevná vazba)

A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on the nation's post-Civil War era of political reorganization, a time when African American progress was met with a white supremacist backlash and ultimately yielded to the consolidation of the unjust social order of Jim Crow. Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of the censorship of Du Bois's characterization of Reconstruction by the Encyclopedia
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