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Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
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Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics) Unknown - 2001

by W. E. B. Dubois


From the publisher

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influential works in American literature. First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: a manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision of change.
John Edgar Wideman observed: Like Freud's excavations of the unconscious, Einstein's revelations of the physical universe, Marx's exploration of the economic foundations of social organization, Du Bois's insights have profoundly altered the way we look at ourselves.

First line

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

Details

  • Title Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
  • Author W. E. B. Dubois
  • Binding unknown
  • Publisher Tandem Library, Turtleback Books
  • Date October 2001
  • ISBN 9780613366830