The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk (Penguin Classics)

by Donald Gibson (Introduction), Donald Gibson (Introduction), W. Du Bois (Author), Monica Elbert (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $16.18

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.50

  W.E.B. du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk is probably one of the most influential and widely read texts of all African American letters and history. The original 1903 edition is reprinted with extensive annotations by two prominent du Bois scholars - an historian and a philosopher. Three additional essays by du Bois are included and many items of correspondence which contextualize how people read the text in his own time. There is a substantial introduction to du Bois' life and writings.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $32.99

  When it was published The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States. It probes fundamental issues of race and justice, and documents W.E.B. Du Bois' conviction that the soul of the black American community must be preserved and revered. The text reprinted here is that of the first bound edition (1903). Contexts presents a collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Criticism offers 13 contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois and Souls , rounding off the picture of this work.