The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School(The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) Paperback / softback
by W. E. B. (, USA) Du Bois, Brent (, USA) Hayes Edwards
Edited by Henry Louis, Jr. (W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W. E. B. D Gates
Paperback / softback
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community.
He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement.
Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Du Bois called his epic Black Flame trilogy a fiction of interpretation.
It acts as a representative biography of African American history by following one man, Manuel Mansart, from his birth in 1876 until his death.
The Black Flame attempts to use this historical fiction of interpretation to recast and revisit the African American experience.
Readers will appreciate The Black Flame trilogy as a clear articulation of Du Bois's perspective at the end of his life. The second book in this profound trilogy, Mansart Builds a School, opens with Mansart's election to superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta and follows him as he ascends to the position of president of Georgia State A&M College.
The book provides a damning portrait of the state of education for African Americans in the south.
Building upon the drama and intrigue of The Ordeal of Mansart in Du Bois's signature lyrical style, Mansart Builds a School delves into the realities of the ordinary southern black experience of the early twentieth century.
With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Brent Hayes Edwards, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American literature.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:330 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:20/02/2014
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- ISBN:9780199386994
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:330 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:20/02/2014
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- ISBN:9780199386994
