Democracy’s Remains: The Hermeneutic Historiography of Black Reconstruction

This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in , sees as the possibilities of black being, even as this being is conditioned by the constrictive and problematic interstitial sites of postbellum, Jim Crow existence that Du Bois names and renames across the vast trajectory of his scholarly career. As...

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Published in:The South Atlantic quarterly 2013-07, Vol.112 (3), p.507-527
Main Author: Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American Studies and Black Diaspora
African Americans
American history
American Studies
Democracy
European Studies
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Hermeneutics
Historiography
History
Keresiouan languages
Reconstruction period-US
U.S. History
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Summary:This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in , sees as the possibilities of black being, even as this being is conditioned by the constrictive and problematic interstitial sites of postbellum, Jim Crow existence that Du Bois names and renames across the vast trajectory of his scholarly career. As I consider Du Bois’s engagement with the hermeneutics of Schleiermacher and Dilthey, I trace his historicization of and inquiry into these interstices and their attendant existential situations. Such situatedness regularly emerges as the conceptual object of what I refer to as Du Bois’s hermeneutic historiographic praxis.
ISSN:0038-2876
1527-8026
DOI:10.1215/00382876-2146440