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The souls of black folk / by W.E.B. Du Bois.
LIBRA E185.6 .D797 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Black or African American.
- african american.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black or African American.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Vintage books/Library of America ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books/Library of America, 1990.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Library of America, 1986.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Du Bois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Souls of black folk.
- ISBN:
- 0679725199
- 9780679725190
- 014039074X
- 9780140390742
- 0553213369
- 9780553213362
- OCLC:
- 20167533
- Publisher Number:
- 9780679725190 (EAN)
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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