Black folk then and now : an essay in the history and sociology of the Negro race / W.E.B. Du Bois ; series editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; introduction by Wilson Moses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Selections. 2007. Works.

The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black race.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2007]

Summary:

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 and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several

Contents:

Negroes and negroids

The valley of the Nile

The Niger and the desert

Congo and Guinea

From the Great Lakes to the Cape

The culture of Africa

The trade in men

Western slave marts

Emancipation and enfranchisement

The black United States

Black Europe

The land in Africa

The African laborer

The political control of Africa

Education in Africa

The future of world democracy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-938324-3

0-19-938323-5

OCLC:

874161457