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The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

1903 · Memoir

Open Library OL28577W

Essays on reconstruction, education, music, and what Du Bois named double consciousness. The book argues, and it also remembers.

About the author

Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk mixes essay, memoir, and music to describe life behind what he called the veil. It is a founding book of American letters, not only of sociology. More of this shelf for W. E. B. Du Bois.

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