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A review by bibliophage
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
challenging
informative
slow-paced
"If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from aristocracy to industrial democracy, had been conceived as a major national program of America, whose accomplishment at any price was well worth the effort, we should be living today in a different world."
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Reading Black Reconstruction in America was a massive undertaking. This was a challenging read of epic proportions—in length, content, and scope—but oh what an eloquent writer Du Bois is. His research, his syntax, his diction, and his insight meld together in this masterpiece—what a gifted thinker and writer. And aren't we too, asking the same question Du Bois was asking in 1935? How would our world be different today if in those Reconstruction years we had not failed our brothers and sisters of color, over and over again?
I'm not sure I would read this book cover-to-cover again, but I certainly will be returning to the text in shorter portions to dig deeper. I found the chapter on the Southern public school system particularly interesting.
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Reading Black Reconstruction in America was a massive undertaking. This was a challenging read of epic proportions—in length, content, and scope—but oh what an eloquent writer Du Bois is. His research, his syntax, his diction, and his insight meld together in this masterpiece—what a gifted thinker and writer. And aren't we too, asking the same question Du Bois was asking in 1935? How would our world be different today if in those Reconstruction years we had not failed our brothers and sisters of color, over and over again?
I'm not sure I would read this book cover-to-cover again, but I certainly will be returning to the text in shorter portions to dig deeper. I found the chapter on the Southern public school system particularly interesting.