The Souls of Black Folk
$22.80
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2008
Summary
‘The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.’
Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism.
The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing account of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199555833 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199555834 |
| Author: | W.E.B. Du Bois, Brent Hayes Edwards |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
W.E.B. Du Bois
Brent Edwards writes widely on literature and jazz. He has translated works by Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, among others. He is the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP, 2003), which won the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association. He also co-edited, with Robert O’Meally and Farah Griffiths, the collection Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia UP, 2004).
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