The Souls of Black Folk: With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk" (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014018998X ISBN 13: 9780140189988

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.

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"[The Souls of Black Folk is] the foundation on which Du Bois built a lifetime of ideas, and on which the black and antiracist intelligentsia continues to build today. . . . In 1903 . . . black newspapers . . . typically shouted in unison, 'SHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON, WHITE AND BLACK.' . . . And today it still SHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON." --Ibram X. Kendi, from the Introduction "A work that is still relevant today . . . Vividly depict[s] what it was like to be black . . . Many of the ideas that Du Bois outlined in the book still endure. . . . [A book] for anyone who wants to understand America." --Lynn Neary, NPR's Morning Edition

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When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America - and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. W. E. B. Du Bois combines history and stirring autobiography to reflect on the magnitude of American racism and to chart a path forward against oppression.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 014018998X
• ISBN 13: 9780140189988
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288