Darkwater (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): Voices from Within the Veil - Brossura

Du Bois, W. E. B.; Brooks Higginbotham, Evelyn

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ISBN 10: 0199387176 ISBN 13: 9780199387175

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2014

Riassunto

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.

Considered a sequel to Du Bois's wildly popular The Souls of Black Folks, Darkwater revisits many of the same themes with a more militant edge, even revising previously published essays and poems to include in this newer volume. Published in 1920, Darkwater focuses on the political climate following World War I. In ten carefully crafted chapters, Du Bois explores the important issues of that period- labor, capital, politics, gender, education, and international relations-in tandem with an overarching theme of race. Blending lyrical autobiography with political thoughts and even poetry, Du Bois makes a powerful, forceful argument regarding race and the color line. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

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L'autore:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).

Contenuti:

• Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign
• Introduction
• Postscript
• Credo
• I. The Shadow of Years
• II. The Souls of White Folk
• III. The Hands of Ethiopia
• IV. Of Work and Wealth
• V. "The Servant in the House"
• VI. Of the Ruling Men
• VII. The Damnation of Women
• VIII. The Immortal Child
• IX. Of Beauty and Death
• X. The Comet
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology
• Selected Bibliography

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199387176
• ISBN 13: 9780199387175
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 196
• Redattore: Gates Jr. Henry Louis