The Souls of Black Folk, A Norton Critical Edition

by Du Bois, W. E. B.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.; Hume Oliver, Terri

• ISBN13: 9780393973938
• ISBN10: 039397393X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

This collection of essays on African American history, culture,and society probes fundamental issues of race and justice and documentsDu Bois#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x99;s conviction that the "soul" of the black community must bepreserved and revered.#xA0; The text reprinted here is that of the firstbook edition (1903). "Contexts" presents a fascinating collection of political andbiographical documents related to the text. Also included are eighteenphotographs that accompanied Du Bois#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x99;s 1901 article "The Negro As HeReally Is." "Criticism" offers thirteen contemporary and recent assessments of DuBois and Souls, rounding out the picture of this enduring work.

Author Biography

Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(28)
Acknowledgments	xxxvii	(2)
Note on the Text	xxxix
The Text of The Souls of Black Folk	1	(166)
Contexts	167	(54)
POLITICAL CONTEXT	167	(20)
Booker T. Washington
The Standard Printed Version of the Atlanta Exposition Address	167	(4)
W. E. B. Du Bois
[Obituary of Booker T. Washington]	171	(1)
Alexander Crummell
Civilization, the Primal Need of the Race	172	(4)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Conservation of Races	176	(8)
The Niagara Movement: Address to the Country	184	(3)
PERSONAL CONTEXT	187	(8)
W. E. B. Du Bois
[Application Letter to Harvard]	187	(1)
From A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the Nineteenth Century	188	(4)
[Celebrating His Twenty-fifth Birthday]	192	(3)
PHOTOGRAPHS: A. Radclyffe Dugmore From The Negro As He Really Is	195	(19)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Credo	214	(7)
A Litany of Atlanta	215	(6)
Criticism	221	(144)
EARLY CRITICISM	221	(15)
David Levering Lewis
From W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race	221	(6)
William James
[Praise for Souls]	227	(1)
[Anonymous] [Review of Souls]	227	(3)
John Spencer Bassett
Two Negro Leaders	230	(4)
John Daniels
[Review of Souls]	234	(2)
MODERN CRITICISM	236	(129)
Dickson D. Bruce Jr.
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Idea of Double Consciousness	236	(9)
Robert Gooding-Williams
Du Bois's Counter-Sublime	245	(18)
Nellie McKay
From W. E. B. Du Bois: The Black Women in His Writings--Selected Fictional and Autobiographical Portraits	263	(10)
Susan Mizruchi
Neighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death and Sympathy in the Early Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois	273	(22)
Arnold Rampersad
Slavery and the Literary Imagination: Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk	295	(16)
Eric J. Sundquist
From Swing Low: The Souls of Black Folk	311	(35)
Shamoon Zamir
"The Sorrow Songs" / "Song of Myself": Du Bois, the Crisis of Leadership, and Prophetic Imagination	346	(19)
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology	365	(7)
Selected Bibliography	372