03049cam a2200361 i 4500 547259321 TxAuBib 20220215120000.0 211212s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2021063201 9781598537031 HRD 45.00 1598537032 HRD 45.00 TxAuBib rda Du Bois, W. E. B., 1868-1963, (William Edward Burghardt.) Works Selections 2021. Black Reconstruction [BOOK] : an essay toward a history of the part of which Black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 : & other writings / W.E.B. Du Bois ; Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors. New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, 2021. xii, 1085 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Library of America ; 350 Includes bibliographical references (pages 1005-1039). 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 Britannica, was written to debunk influential historians whose racist ideas and emphases had disfigured the historical record. “The chief witness in Reconstruction, the emancipated slave himself,” Du Bois argued, “has been almost barred from court. His written Reconstruction record has been largely destroyed and nearly always neglected.” In setting the record straight Du Bois produced what co-editor Eric Foner has called an “indispensable book,” a magisterial work of detached scholarship that is also imbued with passionate outrage. Black Reconstruction is joined here for the first time with important writings that trace Du Bois’s thinking throughout his career about Reconstruction and its centrality in understanding the tortured course of democracy in America. Provided by publisher. 20220215. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877.) African Americans History 1863-1877. African Americans Politics and government. African Americans Employment History 19th century. Foner, Eric, 1943-, editor. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, 1950- Library of America ; 350.