 |
|||||||||||||
 |
|
 |
|||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||||||||
|
|
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 "Click for larger image")
Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy
A Reader
Edited by Eric Foner and Manning Marable
Cloth978-0-252-03029-1
$50.00
| Pub Date: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 296 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
Influential essays on the African American experience from one of the subject’s founding scholars
Barred from the academy for most of his life because of his political views, Herbert Aptheker (1915-2003) nevertheless forged a path in the field of African American studies decades before the civil rights movement reached fruition.
This reader collects fourteen of Aptheker's influential essays on the African American experience. Written with passion and eloquence, they are full of ideas originally dismissed by a white, segregated academy that have now become part of the scholarly mainstream. Covering topics including the slave resistance, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W. E. B. Du Bois, these essays demonstrate the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, while restoring Aptheker's central place as one of the founding scholars in the development of African American studies.
The late Herbert Aptheker was a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. He wrote more than a half dozen books, including American Negro Slave Revolts and Abolitionism: A Revolutionary Movement, and edited The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois (three volumes).
"Whether you realize it or not, your thinking has been significantly influenced by Herbert Aptheker. More than anyone, Aptheker smashed the early 20th-century image of slaves as 'docile, passive, parasitic, imitative.'"--Black Issues Book Review "Historian Herbert Aptheker helped define African American history and redefine American history during his sixty-year career. . . . He truly deserves the outstanding reader that Foner and Marable have put together."--North Carolina Historical Review
"This volume eloquently attests to Herbert Aptheker's pioneering role in African American history. For many years, McCarthyism deprived students of learning directly from this gifted professor, but his scholarship would later prove indispensable to early Black studies departments."--Martha Biondi, author of To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City
"These hard-to-find essays cohere well, capturing the realm in which a major and underappreciated U.S. historian made his most germinal contributions."--David R. Roediger, author of History Against Misery
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and has served as president of both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. His books include The Story of American Freedom. Manning Marable is also a professor of history at Columbia University where he was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He is the author or editor of many books, including Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the American Experience (ed.) and Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America.
Subjects:
Black Studies / Radical Studies / Labor Studies / History, Am.: 20th C.
