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Black Reconstruction in America (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois) - An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); W. E. B. Du Bois; David Levering Lewis (Introduction by)
Category: History
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological ...Show more
Dark Princess - A Romance by W. E. B. Du Bois
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Black History Ser.
Disillusioned with the United States after being expelled from medical school because of his race, Matthew Towns, a young African American man, moves to Berlin, Germany, where he meets and falls in love with Kautilya, a princess from India. They become members of an international coalition against white ...Show more
Darkwater - Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois; Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Introduction by)
Category: History
A new edition of the classic work of Black history and politics with a new introduction by award-winning poet and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. "Du Bois essentially defined black America in the twentieth century."- Ta-Nehisi Coates "I have been in the world, but not of it," begins this searing and p ...Show more
Of the Dawn of Freedom by W E B du Bois
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
'It is the aim of this essay to study the period of history from 1861 to 1872 so far as it relates to the American Negro. In effect, this tale of the dawn of Freedom is an account of that government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, - one of the most singular and interesting of the attempts made by a ...Show more
The Souls Of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois
Category: Classic | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Black History Ser.
First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history-it helped alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and studied in Berlin, these fourteen essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyricism of African spiri ...Show more
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Category: Politics
Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois' seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into America's complex, corrosive obsession with race and the African-American conscience. Reconsidered for the era of Obama and #blacklivesmatter, the new edition includes an incisive ...Show more
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois; Randall Kenan (Introduction by); Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (Afterword by)
Category: Politics
William Du Bois was one of only a handful of blacks to be born in New England during the 1860s. His experience of racism there led directly to his commitment to equal rights, and to his writing 'The Souls of Black Folk', in which Dr. Du Bois aspired to portray what it was like to be black in the final y ...Show more
The Souls of Black Folk by Jonathan Scott Holloway (Introduction by); W. E. B. Du Bois
Category: Social Issue
W. E. B. Du Bois's seminal treatise on the African American experience The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois was arguably the most progressive African American leader of the early twentieth century, and this collection of essays is his masterpiece. ...Show more
The Souls of Black Folk - Centennial Edition by W. E. B. Du Bois; David L. Lewis (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the black experience in America, introducing the ...Show more
W. E. B. du Bois Souls of Black Folk - A Graphic Interpretation by W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963); Paul Peart-Smith; Paul Buhle (Editor); Herb Boyd (Editor); Jonathan Scott Holloway (Introduction by)
Category: Graphic Novels
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the trauma of seeing the Reconstruction era's promise of r ...Show more
W. E. B. du Bois's Data Portraits - Visualizing Black America by W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Staff; Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor); Britt Rusert (Editor)
Category: Graphic Design
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingerin ...Show more
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