The problem of the color line at the turn of the twentieth century : the essential early essays / W.E.B. Du Bois ; edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Contributor:

Chandler, Nahum Dimitri, editor.

Series:

American philosophy series

American philosophy

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Political and social views.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Political and social views.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

370 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This volume assembles essential essays some published only posthumously, others obscure, another only recently translated by W. E. B. Du Bois from 1894 to early 1906. They show the first formulations of some of his most famous ideas, namely, "the veil," "double-consciousness," and the "problem of the color line." Moreover, the deep historical sense of the formation of the modern world that informs Du Bois's thought and gave rise to his understanding of "the problem of the color line" is on display here. Indeed, the essays constitute an essential companion to Du Bois's masterpiece published in 1903 as The Souls of Black Folk. The collection is based on two editorial principles: presenting the essays in their entirety and in strict chronological order. Copious annotation affords both student and mature scholar an unprecedented grasp of the range and depth of Du Bois's everyday intellectual and scholarly reference.

Contents:

The Afro-American (ca. 1894) 33

The Conservation of Races (1897) 51

Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 67

The Study of the Negro Problems (1897) 77

Appendix: Résumé of the Discussion of the Negro Problems (1897) 99

The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 111

The Spirit of Modern Europe (ca. 1900) 139

The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 167

The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 189

The Talented Tenth (1903) 209

The Development of a People (1904) 243

Sociology Hesitant (ca. 1905) 271

Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (Tire Negro Question in the United States) (1906) 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823254545

0823254542

9780823254552

0823254550

OCLC:

869755517