This reader collects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003) 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 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.
| ISBN: | 9780252077265 |
| Publication date: | 27th January 2010 |
| Author: | Herbert Aptheker |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Genres: |
Human rights, civil rights Ethnic studies Anthologies: general Social and cultural history |