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The Souls of Black Folk

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  1. The Forethought & Chapter 1 - Of Our Spiritual Strivings

    25:57

  2. Chapter 2 - Of the Dawn of Freedom, part 1

    24:50

  3. Chapter 2 - Of the Dawn of Freedom, part 2

    23:20

  4. Chapter 3 - Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

    33:23

  5. Chapter 4 - Of the Meaning of Progress

    25:38

  6. Chapter 5 - Of the Wings of Atalanta

    23:18

  7. Chapter 6 - Of the Training of Black Men

    36:23

  8. Chapter 7 - Of the Black Belt, part 1

    26:48

  9. Chapter 7 - Of the Black Belt, part 2

    18:41

  10. Chapter 8 - Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece, part 1

    26:35

  11. Chapter 8 - Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece, part 2

    26:30

  12. Chapter 9 - Of the Sons of Master and Man, part 1

    24:34

  13. Chapter 9 - Of the Sons of Master and Man, part 2

    19:40

  14. Chapter 10 - Of the Faith of the Fathers

    35:26

  15. Chapter 11 - Of the Passing of the First-Born

    18:14

  16. Chapter 12 - Of Alexander Crummell

    25:36

  17. Chapter 13 - Of the Coming of John

    37:53

  18. Chapter 14 - Of the Sorrow Songs & Afterthought

    26:21

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Few American books have shaped how a nation thinks about race as deeply as this one. In fourteen essays, Du Bois gave language to the inner life of Black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century, coining 'double consciousness,' the sense of always seeing yourself through the eyes of a hostile world, and 'the veil' that divides the races. He famously declared that the problem of the century is the problem of the color line. The book blends history, sociology, memoir, and grief, including a chapter on the death of his infant son, and each essay opens with a bar from a spiritual. It remains foundational reading. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

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W. E. B. Du Bois - BDeBooks
W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, and activist, and the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. A co-founder of the NAACP and a tireless advocate for civil rights and Pan-Africanism, he wrote across sociology, history, and literature.

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First published
1903
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
180
Language
English
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