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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America

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Du Bois and Throcks' Marxist Historiography

Du Bois. makes critical interventions toward the dogs Marxist historiography for example his insistence that whiteness serves as a public and psychological wage which functions to make white workers maintain the status quo police black people and enact racial terror all of which prevent class solidarity from forming between black and white workers in the American context. In these hundreds of pages of black reconstruction the boys is dealing with quite a bit but perhaps this churlish on my part to point it out what he didn't deal with as opposed to pointing out what he did deal with, says Throcks.

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