Black Reconstruction In America

Analyze the similarities and differences of the white proletariat toward Black workers in the North and the South during the Reconstruction era. What does Du Bois’s analysis suggest about the nature of racism and class struggle throughout his analysis?

Discuss how Du Bois uses figurative, poetic, and romantic language to emphasize and develop his argument(s). What literary techniques does he use, and to what effect?

Assess Du Bois’s use of secondary sources. Do his secondary sources conform to one approach to historiography over another? How does he use secondary sources that he has also critiqued to build his argument? What are the strengths and limitations of his approach?