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The Souls of Black Folk

Centennial Edition

Centennial Edition

By W.E.B. Du Bois

By W.E.B. Du Bois

By W.E.B. Du Bois
Introduction by David L. Lewis

By W.E.B. Du Bois
Introduction by David L. Lewis

By W.E.B. Du Bois

By W.E.B. Du Bois

By W.E.B. Du Bois

By W.E.B. Du Bois

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    About The Souls of Black Folk

    "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it. He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching in the hills of Tennessee to the death of his infant son and his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington.

    Far ahead of its time, The Souls Of Black Folk both anticipated and inspired much of the black conciousness and activism of the 1960’s and is a classic in the literature of civil rights. The elegance of DuBois’s prose and the passion of his message are as crucial today as they were upon the book’s first publication.

    About The Souls of Black Folk

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

    When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the black experience in America, introducing the now famous “problem of the color line.” In decades since, its stature has only grown, and today it ranks as one of the most influential and resonant works in the history of American thought.

    This centennial edition contains a landmark Introduction by historian David Levering Lewis that brilliantly demonstrates how The Souls of Black Folk remains indispensable not only to an understanding of the history of race and democracy in America but to considerations of the future of racial and cultural comity in the twenty-first century.

    About The Souls of Black Folk

    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.

    About The Souls of Black Folk

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

    “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”  Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature.  In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it.  He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching in the hills of Tennessee to the death of his infant son and his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington.

    Far ahead of its time, The Souls Of Black Folk both anticipated and inspired much of the black conciousness and activism of the 1960’s and is a classic in the literature of civil rights.  The elegance of DuBois’s prose and the passion of his message are as crucial today as they were upon the book’s first publication.

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    About W.E.B. Du Bois

    W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, civil rights activist, scholar, and editor, is one of the most significant intellectuals in American history. A founding member of the NAACP, editor for many years of The Crisis and three other journals, and author… More about W.E.B. Du Bois

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    W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, civil rights activist, scholar, and editor, is one of the most significant intellectuals in American history. A founding member of the NAACP, editor for many years of The Crisis and three other journals, and author… More about W.E.B. Du Bois

    About W.E.B. Du Bois

    W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, civil rights activist, scholar, and editor, is one of the most significant intellectuals in American history. A founding member of the NAACP, editor for many years of The Crisis and three other journals, and author… More about W.E.B. Du Bois

    About W.E.B. Du Bois

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    Category: Literary Collections | Nonfiction Classics

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jun 01, 1989 | 240 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213362

    Category: Literary Collections | Nonfiction Classics

    Hardcover | $17.95
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 07, 2003 | 320 Pages | 4-11/16 x 7-1/4 | ISBN 9780375509117

    Category: Literary Collections | Nonfiction Classics

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jul 26, 2005 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780553901764

    Category: Literary Collections | Nonfiction Classics

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780679641391

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    “One hundred years after publication, there is in the entire body of social criticism still no more than a handful of meditations on the promise and failings of democracy in America to rival William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’s extraordinary collection of fourteen essays.” —from the Introduction by David Levering Lewis

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