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Listening to Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction: After James

Listening to Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction: After James g arr y Berthol F l istenin G t o Du b ois ’s Bl ack Rec onst R uc tion After James [Black Reconstruction] is a wonderful book! Somethi ng ought to be done about it. —C. L. R. James Like Douglass before him, In 1971, C. L. R. James delivered a series of lec- tures at the Instit ute of the Black World in Atlanta. what Du Bois The second lect ure (titled “The Black Jacobins and yearns for is Black Reconstruction: A Comparative Analysis”) of- fers a good point of entry, since Du Bois’s text seems dangerous to have provided a most important precedent for music and James’s own historiographical approach. Indeed, James here acknowledges generously his debt to Du dangerous Bois in words worth quoting at length: thought. [Du Bois] had opened out the historical perspec- tive in a manner I didn’t know. He had been at it for many years. He was a very profound and learned histori an. . . . Did you ever thi nk that the attempt of the black people in the Civil War to attempt democracy was the fi nest eff ort to achieve democracy that the world had http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Listening to Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction: After James

Bertholf, Garry
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 48 (1) – Jul 3, 2016
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g arr y Berthol F l istenin G t o Du b ois ’s Bl ack Rec onst R uc tion After James [Black Reconstruction] is a wonderful book! Somethi ng ought to be done about it. —C. L. R. James Like Douglass before him, In 1971, C. L. R. James delivered a series of lec- tures at the Instit ute of the Black World in Atlanta. what Du Bois The second lect ure (titled “The Black Jacobins and yearns for is Black Reconstruction: A Comparative Analysis”) of- fers a good point of entry, since Du Bois’s text seems dangerous to have provided a most important precedent for music and James’s own historiographical approach. Indeed, James here acknowledges generously his debt to Du dangerous Bois in words worth quoting at length: thought. [Du Bois] had opened out the historical perspec- tive in a manner I didn’t know. He had been at it for many years. He was a very profound and learned histori an. . . . Did you ever thi nk that the attempt of the black people in the Civil War to attempt democracy was the fi nest eff ort to achieve democracy that the world had

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