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The souls of black folk

Author: W E B Du Bois
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books/Library of America, 1990.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st Vintage Books/Library of America edView all editions and formats
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A collection of 14 essays which records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of Black America, and explores the paradoxical "double consciousness" of African-American life. W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and  Read more...
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Souls of black folk.
New York : Vintage Books/Library of America, 1990
(OCoLC)557062125
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Souls of black folk.
New York : Vintage Books/Library of America, 1990
(OCoLC)607833829
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: W E B Du Bois
ISBN: 0679725199 9780679725190 014039074X 9780140390742 0553213369 9780553213362
OCLC Number: 20167533
Notes: Originally published: New York : Library of America, 1986.
Description: xvi, 227 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: by W.E.B. Du Bois.

Abstract:

A collection of 14 essays which records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of Black America, and explores the paradoxical "double consciousness" of African-American life. W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African-American life. "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," he writes, prophesying the struggle for freedom that became his life's work. For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome and durable paperback books. A distinguished author has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice of the text, and notes.
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