Dunning and Burgess turned anti-Black contempt into institutionalized American historiography
Evidence
The movement began with Columbia University and with the advent of John W. Burgess of Tennessee and William A. Dunning of New Jersey as professors of political science and history. Their collective judgment of Black people, their “silence and contempt” as Du Bois characterized it, became American history. And since men such as these were also intimately involved in the construction of the nation’s agenda for the academic study of its political processes and structures, their shared assessment of Blacks was also a prescription: — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 881
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Academic historians led the reactionary assault on Reconstruction and Black history (similarity 0.86)
- Black scholars challenged the lies of American historiography before the monuments were built (similarity 0.81)
- A biased Reconstruction narrative enabled Southern disfranchisement of blacks (similarity 0.80)
- Scientific-method prestige made racist Reconstruction historiography appear objectively true. (similarity 0.78)
- Black rebelliousness to slavery was systematically suppressed by Eurocentric historiography. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- A biased Reconstruction narrative enabled Southern disfranchisement of blacks
#expands(0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2155 - Academic historians led the reactionary assault on Reconstruction and Black history
#corroborates(0.65) - Reconstruction historiography erased Black agency and labor exploitation
#expands(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2159