W. E. B Du Bois
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black history, racism, and the struggles of black Americans following emancipation. In his groundbreaking work, the author presciently writes that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
A new ed. with primary documents and int.
Physical Desc
xxix, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This new edition of Du Bois's John Brown includes the text of the original 1909 edition and is accompanied by a major introduction that underscores Du Bois's intellectual and emotional debt to the martyred abolitionist. John David Smith's introduction asks new questions about Brown's influence on Du Bois's emerging thoughts on race and society. Smith also provides contextualizing documents, including letters from Brown to his family and Frederick...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Personal recollections are included in this work depicting the spirit, status, and problems of African Americans since emancipation.
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1980, ©1940
Edition
Limited ed.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Du Bois writes movingly of his own life, using personal experience to elucidate the systemic problem of race. He reflects on his childhood, his education, and his intellectual life, including the formation of the NAACP. Though his views eventually got him expelled from the association, Du Bois continues to develop his thoughts on separate black economic and social institutions in Dusk of Dawn.