W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.
Published posthumously in 1968, The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois is his last and most complete autobiography. Covering his life over almost a century of living in America, it's the closest thing we have to a true autobiography of this important scholar and activist. The book, broken up into three parts, delves into the 90-year-old Du Bois's thoughts on everything from his relationship with sex to his storied association with the NAACP to his political persecution during the Cold War years to his many travels abroad. As Du Bois writes, he takes the reader on a journey to "view my life as frankly and fully as I can." With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Werner Sollors, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
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"This set represents an invaluable assembly of the works of the pioneering African American scholar, activist, and creative genius....The introductions to the individual volumes are written by such distinguished scholars as to make those writings indispensable treasures in their own right. Recommended for all public libraries and essential for every academic institution."--Library Journal (starred review)
"This set is a valuable contribution to African-American scholarship. It has the potential to introduce a new readership to the scope and breadth of a unique and seminal thinker. The works included can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the issues now facing contemporary Americans....[A] breathtaking collection."--School Library Journal
"The general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas....The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition
to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book News
"This set will be vital to all large university libraries with collections in African American history and American literature."--American Reference Books Annual
"Examining Du Bois's oeuvre in its totality reveals an arc to his career, swinging from the formal scholarly writing of his early years to a trenchant and trademark blend of history, memoir, and polemic....Bringing together all of DuBois's work as a whole, observes [Lawrence D. Bobo of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity], 'reveals the enormity of his intellect, and how it was ignored in his day."--The Chronicle of
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"W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) published 22 works during his long career, all of them contained within this impressive and painstaking collected set....the general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas. Du Bois's conception of race and color in America is a central theme throughout his
oeuvre, beginning with his seminal Souls of Black Folk of 1903. The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them
out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book News
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).
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W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American ResearchW. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign ; Introduction ; Part One ; I. My 15th Trip Abroad ; II. Western Europe ; III. The Pawned Peoples ; IV. The Soviet Union ; V. China ; Interlude: Communism ; Part Two ; VI. My Birth and Family ; VII. Boyhood in Great Barrington ; VIII. I Go South ; IX. Harvard in the Last Decades of the 19th Century ; X. Europe 1892 to 1894 ; XI. Wilberforce ; XII. University of Pennsylvania ; XIII. Atlanta University ; XIV. The Niagara Movement ; XV. The NAACP ; XVI. My Character ; XVII. The Depression ; XVIII. New Deal for Negroes ; XIX. I Return to the NAACP ; Part Three ; XX. Work for Peace ; XXI. An Indicted Criminal ; XXII. The Trial ; XXIII. My Tenth Decade ; Postlude ; Index ; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology ; Selected Bibliography
