The Souls of Black Folk

Publisher Marketing: When it was published The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States. It probes fundamental issues of race and justice, and documents W. E. B. Du Bois' conviction that the soul of the black American community must be preserved and revered. The text reprinted here is that of the first bound edition (1903). Contexts presents a collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Criticism offers 13 contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois and Souls, rounding off the picture of this work. Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780393973938, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 85 (EAN 9780192806789, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 166 (EAN 9780192806789, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 105 (EAN 9780192806789, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 175 (EAN 9780192806789, Paperback) Ingram Paperback Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 62 (EAN 9781416500414, Mass Market Paperbound) Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/15/2005 pg. 778 (EAN 9780974208800, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 138 (EAN 9780974208800, Analog Audio Cassette) Booklist Editors Choice/Media 01/01/2005 pg. 778 (EAN 9780974208800, Analog Audio Cassette) Booklist 12/15/2004 pg. 751 (EAN 9780974208800, Analog Audio Cassette) - *Starred Review Booklist 07/01/2003 pg. 1850 (EAN 9781593080143, Paperback) Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 42 (EAN 9781593080143, Paperback) Ebony 02/01/2003 pg. 18 (EAN 9780375509117, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780140189988, Paperback) Newsweek 05/12/2008 pg. 14 (EAN 9780140189988, Paperback) Newsweek 08/25/2008 pg. 10 (EAN 9780140189988, Paperback) Library Journal 08/01/1998 (EAN 9781560005247, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780679601876, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780679428022, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780553213362, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780606034753, Prebound-Other) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780312128067, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 120 (EAN 9780312091149, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Du Bois, W E B W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was the cofounder of the NAACP. He was educated at the University of Berlin and Harvard University, and he was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard. He taught at Wilberforce University in Ohio, the University of Pennsylvania, and Clark Atlanta University (where he established the department of social work). He is the author of numerous writings, including Worlds of Color; Africa in Battle against Colonialism, Racialism, Imperialism; and In Battle for Peace. Contributor Bio:  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph. D. Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513 2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman s Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com. Contributor Bio:  Hume Oliver, Terri Terri Hume Oliver is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. The title of her dissertation is The Ends of Childhood: An American Rhetoric of Minority. She has published reference entries on Cynthia Ozick, Susan Cheever, and Robert Beck, and was a research assistant for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.