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W.E.B. Dubois: A Reader
Bookseller Information
- Bookseller: Book Castle
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 9780805032642
Bibliographic Details
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Good
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0805032649
- ISBN 13: 9780805032642
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
- Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date published: 1995
- Pages: 801
- Size: 6.25 x 9.25 x 2.25 inches
- Weight: 2.15 pounds
Book Description
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1995 Large Paperback. Good.
Book summary
A writer, educator, editor, historian, and sociologist, W.E.B. Du Bois was an early proponent of civil rights in the United States. He believed that the color line was the central problem of the 20th century. A controversial figure who was in many ways ahead of his time, Du Bois espoused racial and political beliefs of such variety and apparent contradiction as to bewilder as many Americans as he inspired and converted. Beneath his rhetoric, however, was a bedrock belief in democracy. He sought to dispel the notion of the inferiority of Black people and wrote passionately of the potential of African Americans. He identified the African dilemma as "double-consciousness...an American, a negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body." The pieces included in this volume were chosen by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Du Bois, David Levering Lewis.
Publisher Notes
The acclaimed biographer of W.E.B. Dubois presents the essential writings of the great civil rights leader. Drawn from thousands of essays, speeches, books, and periodicals, W.E.B. Du Bois reveals the essential Du Bois in a single volume accessible to all readers.
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