Cover: The Souls of Black Folk, 1st Edition by W.E.B. DuBois; Edited by David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams

The Souls of Black Folk

First Edition ©1997 W.E.B. DuBois; Edited by David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams

One of the most influential and widely read texts in all of African American letters and history, The Souls of Black Folk combines some of the most enduring reflections on black identity, the meaning of emancipation,and Afican American culture. This new edition reprints the original 1903 edit...
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Cover: The Souls of Black Folk, 1st Edition by W.E.B. DuBois; Edited by David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams

One of the most influential and widely read texts in all of African American letters and history, The Souls of Black Folk combines some of the most enduring reflections on black identity, the meaning of emancipation,and Afican American culture. This new edition reprints the original 1903 edition of W.E.B. Du Boiss classic work with the fullest set of annotations of any version yet published, together with two related essays, and numerous letters Du Bois received and wrote concerning his widely read text. The introductory essay combines the sensibilities of a historian and a philosopher to capture the contours of Du Boiss life and writings along with the early-twentieth-century reception to the book. Photographs, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are also included.

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Table of Contents

  Foreword
  Preface
    
INTRODUCTION: THE STRANGE MEANING OF BEING BLACK: DU BOISS AMERICAN TRAGEDY
    
PART I. THE DOCUMENT
    
  W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
    
  Notes on the text
    
PART II. SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS, ESSAYS, AND CORRESPONDENCE
    
  Photographs
    
  Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois
    "The Conservation of Races," 1897
    "The Development of a People," 1904
    "The Souls of Black Folk," 1904
    
  Correspondence about The Souls of Black Folk, 1903–1957
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Du Bois, May 30, 1903
    Caroline Pemberton to Du Bois, December 12, 1903
    D. Tabak to Du Bois
    Du Bois to William James, June 12, 1906
    Hallie E. Queen to Du Bois, February 11, 1907
    W. D. Hooper to Du Bois, September 2, 1909, and Du Bois to W. D. Hooper, October 11, 1909
    Du Bois to Herbert Aptheker, February 27, 1953
    Langston Hughs to Du Bois, May 22, 1956
    
APPENDICES
    
  A Du Bois Chronology (1868–1963)
  Questions for Consideration
  Selected Bibliography
    
  Index
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W. E. B. Du Bois

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David W. Blight

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition at Yale University. He previously taught at Amherst College and Harvard University, as well as seven years as a high school teacher in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. His books include an edition of Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom; American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; the Bedford edition of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk with co-editor Robert Gooding-Williams; and Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. He is at work on a new
full life of Douglass.

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Robert Gooding-Williams

Robert Gooding-Williams is George Lyman Crosby 1896 Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. He is the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (1993) and the author of essays on Frederick Nietzsche, Du Bois, multiculturalism, and the representation of race in film.