The Souls of Black Folk /

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This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black history, racism, and the struggles of black Americans fo...

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Main Author: Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African Americans > History
African Americans > Intellectual life
African Americans > Social conditions
African Americans > Study and teaching (Higher)
African Americans
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age / Holloway, Jonathan Scott
  • Chronology / Holloway, Jonathan Scott
  • The Forethought
  • I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
  • II. Of the Dawn of Freedom
  • III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
  • IV. Of the Meaning of Progress
  • V. Of the Wings of Atalanta
  • VI. Of the Training of Black Men
  • VII. Of the Black Belt
  • VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
  • IX. Of the Sons of Master and Man
  • X. Of the Faith of the Fathers
  • XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born
  • XII. Of Alexander Crummell
  • XIII. Of the Coming of John
  • XIV. The Sorrow Songs
  • The Afterthought
  • Acknowledgments

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