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ISBN-10: 014018998X
ISBN-13: 9780140189988
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 04/01/1996
Dimensions: 7.66" L, 6.36" W, 0.55" H

The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk

Introduction by: Ibram X Kendi
Notes by: Monica E Elbert

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Overview

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, ” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influential works in American literature. First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: a manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision of change.
John Edgar Wideman observed: “Like Freud’s excavations of the unconscious, Einstein’s revelations of the physical universe, Marx’s exploration of the economic foundations of social organization, Du Bois’s insights have profoundly altered the way we look at ourselves.”

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"I was assigned this book of essays in college and it was transformative for me as a person and a writer. Du Bois captures the complexity and the interiority of what it's like to be black in the United States, and even though it was written more than a century ago, the way Du Bois writes makes it feel like he wrote this book last year." –Tomi Adeyemi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone, in the Good Morning America Book Club

"A work that is still relevant today . . . Vividly depict[s] what it was like to be black . . . Many of the ideas that Du Bois outlined in the book still endure. . . . [A book] for anyone who wants to understand America." –Lynn Neary, NPR's Morning Edition

"[The Souls of Black Folk is] the foundation on which Du Bois built a lifetime of ideas, and on which the black and antiracist intelligentsia continues to build today. . . . In 1903 . . . black newspapers . . . typically shouted in unison, 'SHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON, WHITE AND BLACK.' . . . And today it still SHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON." –Ibram X. Kendi, from the Introduction

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ISBN-10: 014018998X
ISBN-13: 9780140189988
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 04/01/1996
Dimensions: 7.66" L, 6.36" W, 0.55" H
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