The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Length
- 33 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
The Souls of Black Folk is a book of fourteen chapters by W. E. B. Du Bois, a Black American scholar who was teaching at Atlanta University when it came out in 1903. Some chapters first appeared as magazine articles and were revised for the book. Du Bois writes about what it meant to be Black in the United States a generation after slavery ended. He begins with the image of the Veil and the idea of double-consciousness, and he states that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.
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