Oct 6, 2008
In the following essay, Scott Herring examines The Souls of Black Folk within a historical and cultural context, specifically focusing on the book’s reaction to minstrelsy.
W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk is not a book that can be read in ignorance of its historic milieu; to focus exclusively on the text would be to cripple it. First published in 1903, it was written in an America in which the white majority only grudgingly accepted the idea that black folk even had souls. The images most...
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