“With a striking new introduction written by Atlantic journalist Vann R. For anyone interested in understanding race in America, or in the literary lineage that Du Bois generated-from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, to Toni Morrison’s Sula, to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me- The Souls of Black Folk is essential reading. Striking in their psychological precision and political foresight, the fourteen chapters of The Souls of Black Folk move between historical and sociological essays, song and poetry, personal recollection and fiction, laying out the foundational ideas of “double-consciousness”-an inner conflict created by the seemingly irreconcilable “black” and “American” identities-and “the veil,” through which African-Americans must see a spectrum of economic, social, and political opportunities entirely differently from their white counterparts.
Published forty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Du Bois’s radioactive essays addressed an American nation that had still not yet found “peace from its sins.” Today, amid furor over voting rights, mass incarceration, police brutality and extrajudicial killing, the ghosts of white supremacy and ethnonationalism, and the apparent fragility of the equality and desegregation gains of the Civil Rights Movement, Du Bois’s work has proven prophetic, and more urgently necessary than ever. Since he penned these words in 1903, the fraught relationship between the races has dominated the country’s policies, economy, and social developments.
Du Bois crafted what would become the most influential work about race in America: The Souls of Black Folk. The authors talked about their book, Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts on the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B.“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” This infamous formulation is the central idea around which W. A question and answer period followed their presentation. Benjamin appraised the ideas of the black sociologist and intellectual, including advocacy of the black “talented tenth” and his philosophical differences with Booker T. First published in 1903, the original book was a collection of fourteen essays on race and racism in American society in which DuBois asserted, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Mr. Their book is a discussion of the legacy and current relevance of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. T08:01:06-04:00 The authors talked about their book, Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts on the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B.
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