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

Title: Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk Author: W E B Du Bois ISBN: 9780140189988 Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Black Studies 1547462 Publisher Description: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, " wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influential works in American literature. First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: a manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision of change. John Edgar Wideman observed: "Like Freud's excavations of the unconscious, Einstein's revelations of the physical universe, Marx's explora