![]() In addition to linking to these longer texts, the strength of this shorter book by Gates involves the recent discoveries and important questions of the 30 years since Foner’s book, as well as the literary and cultural studies angles that Gates is expert in. ![]() ![]() Both book fight against first half a century, then a full century of misinformation and disinformation as racist justification for Jim Crow, racist justification of Lost Cause, and racist revisionism in the history of Reconstruction. was written to support a documentary and to provide additional resources, analysis, and insight into the post-Civil War Reconstruction and Jim Crow periods in the US.įor a more robust understanding of the Reconstruction era, Gates points us to WEB Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, which was one of the first extensive histories of Reconstruction to fight back against Lost Cause racism in history, as well as Eric Foner’s more recent book Reconstruction which continues in this vein. ![]() Yet another book that presented answers to questions in part, but mostly added to my reading list, this slight book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ![]()
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