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

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W.E.B. Du Bois's classic collection of essays about the experiences of African Americans.

The book is a foundational work in the history of sociology and a seminal tome in the development of African-American Studies. 

The essays include The Forethought, Of Our Spiritual Strivings, Of the Dawn of Freedom, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, Of the Meaning of Progress, Of the Wings of Atalanta, Of the Training of Black Men, Of the Black Belt, Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece, Of the Sons of Master and Man, Of the Faith of the Fathers, Of the Passing of the First-Born, Of Alexander Crummell, Of the Coming of John, Of the Sorrow Songs, and The Afterthought.

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.66h x 6.36w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780140189988

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.6
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 157695 / Souls of Black Folk

About the Author
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He attended public schools there prior to attending Fisk University, where he received his BA degree in 1888. Thereafter he received a second BA degree and an MA and PhD from Harvard. He studied at the University of Berlin as well. He taught at Wilberforce University and the University of Pennsylvania before going to Atlanta University in 1897, where he taught for many years. A sociologist, historian, poet, and writer of several novels, Du Bois was one of the main founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was a lifelong critic of American society and an advocate of black people against racial injustice. He spent his last years in Ghana, where he died in exile at the age of ninety-five.

Ibram X. Kendi (introduction) is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. A contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent, he is a coeditor, with Keisha N. Blain, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls and the author of many other books, including The Black Campus Movement, which won the W. E. B. Du Bois Book Prize; Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; and three #1 New York Times bestsellers: How to Be an Antiracist; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. Kendi lives in Boston, Massachusetts.