The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

Zusatztext This set will be vital to all large university libraries with collections in African American history and American literature. Informationen zum Autor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, Chair of African and African American Studies, 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 African American Lives, Africana, and the forthcoming African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the new online Oxford AfricanAmerican Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com). Zusammenfassung 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. DuBois'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. DuBois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois is a collection of Du Bois's works in 19 volumes. Each work is introduced by a brief essay by an eminent scholar and each volume includes a general introduction from the series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Spanning over a half-century, this collection is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

Product details

• Authors: W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis (EDT) Gates
• Assisted by: Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780195311808
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531180-8
• No. of pages: 6200
• Dimensions: 248 mm x 343 mm x 254 mm
• Series: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois; The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Civil rights & citizenship, Anthologies (non-poetry), Black & Asian Studies, Civics and citizenship, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black