The Souls of Black Folk
ISBN: 9780312091149 | 0312091141
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 2/15/1997
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Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing account of the situation of African Americans in the United States. Du Bois makes a forceful case for the access of African Americans to higher education, memorably extols t... MORE
| Foreword | v | ||||
| Preface | vii | ||||
| Introduction The Strange Meaning of Being Black: Du Bois's American Tragedy | 1 | (30) | |||
| PART ONE The Document | 31 | (190) | |||
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| PART TWO Selected Photographs, Essays, and Correspondence | 221 | (59) | |||
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| Index | 280 |
David W. Blight is associate professor of history and black studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989) and essays on abolitionism, the Civil War, and American historical memory. He is the editor of the Bedford edition of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1993).
Robert Gooding-Williams is George Lyman Crosby 1896 Professor of Philosophy and professor of black studies at Amherst College. He is the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (1993) and the author of essays on Frederick Nietzxche, Du Bois, multiculturalism, and the representation of race in film.
Robert Gooding-Williams is George Lyman Crosby 1896 Professor of Philosophy and professor of black studies at Amherst College. He is the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (1993) and the author of essays on Frederick Nietzxche, Du Bois, multiculturalism, and the representation of race in film.
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