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The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

What did it mean to be Black in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, as one thinker saw and felt it?

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Author
W. E. B. Du Bois

Why read it

  • You will see American history as incomplete without the struggles and contributions of Black Americans
  • You will understand the founding argument over how Black Americans should pursue progress after slavery
  • You will learn how the promise of freedom met hard limits in the South after the Civil War

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants a foundation text for how America discusses race
  • A student meeting Du Bois for the first time
  • Someone who wants the long roots of today's debates on race

Contents

  1. FROM THE PAGES OF THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
  2. W. E. B. DU BOIS
  3. THE WORLD OF W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. THE FORETHOUGHT
  6. I - Of Our Spiritual Strivings
  7. II - Of the Dawn of Freedom
  8. III - Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
  9. IV - Of the Meaning of Progress
  10. V - Of the Wings of Atalanta
  11. VI - Of the Training of Black Men
  12. VII - Of the Black Belt
  13. VIII - Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
  14. IX - Of the Sons of Master and Man
  15. X - Of the Faith of the Fathers
  16. XI - Of the Passing of the First-Born
  17. XII - Of Alexander Crummell
  18. XIII - Of the Coming of John
  19. XIV - The Sorrow Songs
  20. THE AFTERTHOUGHT
  21. APPENDIX
  22. INSPIRED BY THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
  23. Politics
  24. Literature and the Arts
  25. COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
  26. Comment
  27. Questions
  28. FOR FURTHER READING
  29. Autobiographies, Biographies, and Correspondence
  30. Secondary Critical Sources
  31. Additional Works Cited in the Introduction

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