W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation

by Paul Peart-Smith, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), W.E.B. Du Bois

Book Overview

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the trauma of seeing the Reconstruction era's promise of racial equality cruelly dashed by the rise of white supremacist terror and Jim Crow laws. Yet he also argued for the value of African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978824653
• ISBN13: 9781978824652
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 8.5"