The Souls of Black Folk (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Philosophy, Essays
- Subjects: African Americans, Discrimination, Justice, Pan-Africanism, Racism, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Poverty or poor people, Ku Klux Klan, Suffrage or voting rights, Terrorism or terrorists, Progress
Critical Evaluation:
The Souls of Black Folk is a passionate and eloquent autobiography. It tells the life story of an individual, W. E. B. Du Bois, and of a group, African Americans. In the process of telling his personal autobiography, Du Bois shows how he is shaped by his community’s story. Du Bois inhabits a world in which a color line divides all life into two parts. One part is privileged and white, and it exploits the other part that is constrained and black.
As an author reflecting on his life, Du Bois could not separate himself from “what was then...
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