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(0)W. E. B Du Bois
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African American life. When it was first published in 1903, The Souls of...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A towering figure in African-American history, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) created a substantial literary legacy beyond such seminal works as The Souls of Black Folk. This volume highlights his other nonfiction writings and should be of great value to students in secondary school and college as well as to other readers. Contents include:
Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (1899)
The...
Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (1899)
The...
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Library of America volume 350
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on...
7) John Brown
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English
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A fascinating account of the life of the controversial abolitionist and would-be Harpers Ferry rebellion leader John Brown, written by one of the most influential and important African-American thinkers of his time, W.E.B. Du Bois, in 1909.
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English
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This novel chronicles the love story between Zora, a free-spirited Black girl from a Southern swamp, and Bles, a Black man educated in the North. The couple must find a way to unite and overcome the racist Alabama town in which they live and, through working with the titular silver fleece (cotton), create an economic community that would help the rural Black community become self-sufficient.