Authors:W. E. B. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois,
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: negro
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-03-02
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0486414434
ISBN-13: 9780486414430

This work, by one of the champions of the early civil rights movement in the U.S., pulls together the various elements of African history and highlights the distinctive and complex cultures existing in Africa before the slave trade, citing evidence of architectural development, iron working, writing, and numerous other cultural advances.

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Keywords: noble, classics, series, amp, barnes, black, folk, souls
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 159308014X
ISBN-13: 9781593080143

The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enri

Author: W.E.B. Du Bois
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: negro, philadelphia
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $17.75
ISBN-10: 1602069425
ISBN-13: 9781602069428

Originally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct the study, under what some believe to be false pretenses. Some suspect that the study was meant, by those funding it, to show how the black community was responsible for a number of problems within the city. The report they received, however, was of quite a different nature. The Philadelphia Negro was the first sociological study of black urban Americans ever conducted. It detailed their lives, their social

Author: W.E.B. Du Bois
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: fleece, silver, quest
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 160206895X
ISBN-13: 9781602068957

First published in 1911, The Quest of the Silver Fleece is set in Washington, D.C., and Alabama. The silver fleece refers to the cotton industry, owned by powerful white men, who continued to make their fortune through the labor of African-Americans. In the story, Blessed Alwyn tries to come to terms with how a black man can integrate into society. He gets an education and moves to Washington, where he meets well-to-do blacks who seem to be living the kind of lives slaves had struggled for. Only, Blessed comes to find out, they have to make many compromises in order to be accepted by their

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: study, social, negro, philadelphia
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0812215737
ISBN-13: 9780812215731

In 1897 a young sociologist who was already marked as a scholar of the highest promise submitted to the American Association of Political and Social Sciences a "plan for the study of the Negro problem". The product of that plan was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963), Ph.D. from Harvard (class of 1890), was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct in-depth studies on the Negro community in Philadelphia. The provost of the university was interested and sympathet

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: International Publishers
Keywords: africa, world
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1979-06
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0717802213
ISBN-13: 9780717802210

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Filiquarian
Keywords: volume, folk, black, souls
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2007-11-07
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1599867591
ISBN-13: 9781599867595

The Souls of Black Folk is an important early 20th century work of African American literature, written by W. E. B. Du Bois. This publication is a groundbreaking work, drawn from the authors own life experiences, on being an African American in the American society of the time. This is a key book in the studies of African American history, and should be read by those interested in learning about this unique and important area of historical interest and those that are interested inthe life and writings of W. E. B. Du Bois.