Further Reading
- The Massachusetts Review XXXV, No. 2 (Summer 1994): 166-332. (Special issue devoted to Du Bois and his works.)
- Baker, Houston A., Jr., "The Black Man of Culture: W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk." In Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture, pp. 96-108. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1972. (Discusses Du Bois's definition of "the black man of culture and his role in modern society.")
- Broderick, Francis L., W. E. B. Du Bois: Negro Leader in a Time of Crisis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959, 259 p. (First book-length biography of Du Bois. Broderick made use of Du Bois's private papers at the University of Massachusetts until Du Bois closed them to the public after his 1951 indictment as an unregistered agent of a foreign power.)
- Byerman, Keith, "Race and Romance: The Quest of the Silver Fleece as Utopian Narrative." American Literary Realism 21, No. 3 (Spring 1992): 58-71. (Argues that the allegorical elements in Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece, as well as the necessities of narrative, undercut the novel's ideological message.)
- Byerman, Keith, "The Children Ceased to Hear My Name: Recovering the Self in The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois." In Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives, edited by James Robert Payne, pp. 64-93. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992. (Argues that a deep sense of anxiety pervades Du Bois's autobiography and concludes that Du Bois sought to create a "permanent portrait of himself as the ultimate American.")
- Downs, Robert B., "Black Protestant: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk." In Books That Changed the South, pp. 197-207. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1977. (Examines the essays contained in The Souls of Black Folk and concludes that the book is "an impassioned black nationalist document, consciously directed toward the Negro people, and identifying with Africa, blackness, and the rural Negro.")
- Duberman, Martin, "The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois." In The Uncompleted Past, pp. 195-202. New York: Random House, 1969. (Reviews Du Bois's Autobiography and comments on his beliefs about racism in the United States.)
- Du Bois, Shirley Graham, His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W. E. B. Du Bois. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1971, 384 p. (Biography and personal memoir by Du Bois's second wife.)
- Johnson, Dennis Loy, "In the Hush of Great Barrington: One Writer's Search for W. E. B. Du Bois." The Georgia Review XLIX, No. 3 (Fall 1995): 581-606. (Provides a summary of Du Bois's life and discusses the controversy surrounding a memorial to him in his hometown of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.)
- McCarthy, Mary, "The Federal Theatre." In Sights and Spectacles, 1937–1956, pp. 30-38. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. (Briefly reviews Du Bois's play Haiti along with several other plays.)
- Moore, Jack B., W. E. B. Du Bois. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981, 185 p. (Biography concentrating on Du Bois's life and works.)
- Rampersad, Arnold, The Art and Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976, 325 p. (Evaluation of Du Bois's intellectual influences and changing thought.)
- Rudwick, Elliotte, "W. E. B. Du Bois: In the Role of Crisis Editor." The Journal of Negro History XLIII, No. 3 (July 1958): 214-40. (Analyzes Du Bois's stewardship of the NAACP's magazine Crisis from 1910 to 1934 and his relationship with the organization's board of directors.)
- Stepto, Robert B., "The Quest of the Weary Traveler: W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk." In From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative, pp. 52-91. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. (Examines the narrative structure and technique of The Souls of Black Folk.)
- Taylor, Councill, "Clues for the Future: Black Urban Anthropology Reconsidered." In Race, Change, and Urban Society, edited by Peter Orleans and William Russell Ellis, Jr., pp. 603-618. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1971. (Analyzes various black urban anthropological studies, using Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro as a model for comparison.)
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