Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader

by Herbert Aptheker

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077261
• ISBN13: 9780252077265
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"