1. READING BLACK RECONSTRUCTION

2. READING BLACK RECONSTRUCTION
1. To examine Du Bois’ method of historiography for understanding the role of Black people in the Reconstruction period.

3. READING BLACK RECONSTRUCTION
1. To examine Du Bois’ method of historiography for understanding the role of Black people in the Reconstruction period.
2. To draw lessons from the context of Reconstruction to sharpen our analysis and strategy for today's fights, including:

4. READING BLACK RECONSTRUCTION
1. To examine Du Bois’ method of historiography for understanding the role of Black people in the Reconstruction period.
2. To draw lessons from the context of Reconstruction to sharpen our analysis and strategy for today's fights, including:
developing an anti-capitalist analysis of the balance of forces
understanding how capitalism is racialized and motivates private and governmental forces
understanding and applying the concept of abolition democracy
building and maintaining multi-racial coalitions

5. READING BLACK RECONSTRUCTION
1. To examine Du Bois’ method of historiography for understanding the role of Black people in the Reconstruction period.
2. To draw lessons from the context of Reconstruction to sharpen our analysis and strategy for today's fights, including:
developing an anti-capitalist analysis of the balance of forces
understanding how capitalism is racialized and motivates private and governmental forces
understanding and applying the concept of abolition democracy
building and maintaining multi-racial coalitions
3. To build a community of people using these ideas in the Bay Area.

6. W.E.B. DuBois Born 1868 in Great Barrington, MA
Drawing on historians David Levering Lewis, Toni Cade Bambara, Eric Foner, and Jordan Camp
Born 1868 in Great Barrington, MA
Wrote over 30 books, including history, autobiography, novels, and poetry
As an intellectual and academic DuBois was a key architect in the efforts to build a project of Black intellectual self-determination over Black and African History. (also co-founded the Niagara Movement)
Encyclopaedia Africana
Early attempts to coordinate Black Studies
Active in Pan-African Movement starting in 1900
1909, DuBois was one of the founders of the NAACP and served as director of publicity and research, on its board of director and as editor of Crisis (NAACP's monthly magazine).
Writes Black Reconstruction after making break with NAACP
Black Reconstruction is a critical intervention against white scholarship that has Reconstruction as a failure, and the reestablishment of white supremacy, including through racist terrorism, as the re-establishment of order in in the south.

7. Historical Context for DuBois' work on Black Reconstruction
Time of economic crisis (Great Depression—which DuBois predicted writing for NAACP’s The Crisis)
Jim Crow institutionalized in the South
Effects conditions under which DuBois researches Black Reconstruction
Time of Labor Militancy, including Communist agitation among Black workers
Beginning of steep rise of unionization of Black Workers

8. READING BLACK RECONSTRUCTION
1. To examine Du Bois’ method of historiography for understanding the role of Black people in the Reconstruction period.
2. To draw lessons from the context of Reconstruction to sharpen our analysis and strategy for today's fights, including:
developing an anti-capitalist analysis of the balance of forces
understanding how capitalism is racialized and motivates private and governmental forces
understanding and applying the concept of abolition democracy
building and maintaining multi-racial coalitions
3. To build a community of people using these ideas in the Bay Area.