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The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School(The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

Exploring African American Education and Identity

W E B Du Bois author Brent Hayes Edwards author Henry Louis Gates editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:20th Feb '14

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This profound narrative continues the journey of Manuel Mansart, exploring the challenges faced in African American education and identity. Mansart Builds a School is essential reading.

In Mansart Builds a School, the second installment of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Flame trilogy, readers follow the journey of Manuel Mansart, who is elected as the superintendent of Negro schools in Atlanta. This pivotal role sets the stage for his eventual rise to the presidency of Georgia State A&M College. Through Mansart's experiences, Du Bois presents a critical examination of the educational landscape for African Americans in the South, highlighting systemic challenges and societal barriers faced by the community.

W. E. B. Du Bois, a prominent sociologist, activist, and public intellectual, was instrumental in shaping African American political culture in the United States. His contributions, including co-founding the NAACP and engaging in the Pan-African movement, reflect his commitment to advocating for the rights and recognition of African Americans. His extensive research and writing on African American history and culture broke new ground, particularly regarding the Reconstruction era and its aftermath.

Mansart Builds a School serves as a significant literary work that embodies Du Bois's vision of using historical fiction to reinterpret the African American experience. As readers accompany Mansart from his early life through his professional achievements, they gain insights into the complexities of the Black experience in the early twentieth century. With an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Brent Hayes Edwards, this edition is a vital addition to the study of African American literature and history.

"This set represents an invaluable assembly of the works of the pioneering African American scholar, activist, and creative genius....The introductions to the individual volumes are written by such distinguished scholars as to make those writings indispensable treasures in their own right. Recommended for all public libraries and essential for every academic institution."--Library Journal (starred review) "This set is a valuable contribution to African-American scholarship. It has the potential to introduce a new readership to the scope and breadth of a unique and seminal thinker. The works included can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the issues now facing contemporary Americans....[A] breathtaking collection."--School Library Journal "The general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas....The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book News "This set will be vital to all large university libraries with collections in African American history and American literature."--American Reference Books Annual "Examining Du Bois's oeuvre in its totality reveals an arc to his career, swinging from the formal scholarly writing of his early years to a trenchant and trademark blend of history, memoir, and polemic....Bringing together all of DuBois's work as a whole, observes [Lawrence D. Bobo of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity], 'reveals the enormity of his intellect, and how it was ignored in his day."--The Chronicle of Philanthropy "W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) published 22 works during his long career, all of them contained within this impressive and painstaking collected set....the general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas. Du Bois's conception of race and color in America is a central theme throughout his oeuvre, beginning with his seminal Souls of Black Folk of 1903. The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book News

ISBN: 9780199386994

Dimensions: 155mm x 234mm x 20mm

Weight: 479g

330 pages