W. E. B. Du Bois: a reader. / Edited, and with an introduction by Meyer Weinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Weinberg, Meyer, 1920-2002, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1970

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 471 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, [1970].

Contents:

Being Oneself

Life in Black America

History of Black America

Black Children and Mothers

The Negro College

Churches: Black and White

The Black Arts

Separation and Integration

The White Folk

The Negro and Socialism

Africa

The World of Color

This and That.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Robert Korn."

"An Urban affairs book under the general editorship of Kenneth B. Clark. The Urban affairs series is cosponsored by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center, inc., and Harper & Row.".

"The present book consists entirely of articles by Du Bois that were first published in various magazines. Although he later incorporated a few of these in several of his books, the great majority have never before been collected ... All the eighty-one selections are presented in their entirety; none have been shortened ... Over ninety perfect of the contents of this book has never before appeared in book form."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-459) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has "First Edition" statement wanting.

OCLC:

54026