[Civsoc-mw] An Unfinished Revolution

[Tony Thontholani]

James Oakes reviews Henry Louis Gates’s PBS documentary ‘Reconstruction: America After the Civil War’ and two companion books. “One of the most impressive aspects of the PBS series is how often it cuts against the overly racialized dichotomy between white supremacy and black resistance,” Oakes writes. “On camera, one scholar after another points out that what was most threatening to Southern white elites was the very real possibility of a popular, democratic coalition of whites and blacks.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/reconstruction-unfinished-revolution/


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