So #twitterstorians, other scholars/writers: Has anybody written an essay explicating the critical reception/historiographical trajectory of “Black Reconstruction in America”? @jbouie @arothmanhistory @ProfMSinha @AdamSerwer @nikhil_palsingh @skantrow
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Good question and was thinking about this myself. I remember when I did my New Republic research that the magazine had a surprisingly thoughtful review when it first came out.
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This is a job for the GOAT Eric Foner.
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IIRC — Abram Harris reviewed ‘Black Reconstruction’ for New Republic in 1935 The stakes of Harris’ disagreement with Du Bois, on 1860s-and-1930s cross-racial history-and-politics — has been debated — with varied takes, by e.g. Cedric Johnson, Dave Roediger, & others — IIRC
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Harris had disagreements with WEBD but it was a very smart, thoughtful, engaged review, written by someone steeped in Marxism.
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Will have to read that. I just think it’s, of course, easy to prayed the book tidy, but that is itself a historical/political process and transformation.
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As it turns out I have a copy of Harris's review on file. Let me know if you want me to email it to you
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Replying to @HeerJeet @TejNagaraja and
Would love it, thxs so much, Jeet.
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