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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback Classic)

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Interviews The Wounded World: Chad L. Williams on a lost masterwork by W.E.B. Du Bois
April 20, 2023

Story of the Week W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Experts”
January 21, 2022

Story of the Week W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”
June 19, 2020

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.

The first to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice, John Edgar Wideman has written a dozen novels, including Philadelphia Fire and Sent for You Yesterday, and a NBCC-nominated memoir, Brothers and Keepers. His second memoir, Fatheralong, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
News & Views

Interviews The Wounded World: Chad L. Williams on a lost masterwork by W.E.B. Du Bois
April 20, 2023

Story of the Week W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Experts”
January 21, 2022

Story of the Week W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”
June 19, 2020

Influences Viet Thanh Nguyen: We still live in Ralph Ellison’s moment
June 4, 2020

Interviews Stony the Road: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
September 12, 2019

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