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Informationen zum Autor William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. Klappentext W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published Darkwater -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk. Throughout his long life and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and educator, Du Bois's body of work illumined America's understanding of the "problem of the color line." While much of his early texts were sociological investigations of the Black community, the author increasingly incorporated autobiographical, poetic and spiritual elements into his works. The results are some of the most electrifying commentaries ever written on race and class in America.After decades of obscurity, this literary jewel is presented with a new introduction written by David Levering Lewis, author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963; Lewis is the foremost scholar of the work of Du Bois."If The Souls of Black Folk achieved its singular impact through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and the universal in such a way that each appropriated something of the illustrative and symbolic value of the other, much of Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil was a cri de coeur in which the author's anger at the absurdities of racial prejudice crackled through the text like electric jolts that scorched, illumined, or stunned." -- David Levering Lewis, from the Introduction Zusammenfassung A new edition of the classic work by the celebrated scholar and activist is comprised of essays, verse, and other pieces written in the seventeen years after The Souls of Black Folk and represents ideas that directly impacted the civil rights movement. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSPostscriptCredoI: THE SHADOW OF YEARSA Litany at AtlantaII: THE SOULS OF WHITE FOLKThe Riddle of the SphinxIII: THE HANDS OF ETHIOPIAThe Princess of the Hither IslesIV: OF WORK AND WEALTHThe Second ComingV: "THE SERVANT IN THE HOUSE"Jesus Christ in TexasVI: OF THE RULING OF MENThe CallVII: THE DAMNATION OF WOMENChildren of the MoonVIII: THE IMMORTAL CHILDAlmighty DeathIX: OF BEAUTY AND DEATHThe Prayers of GodX: THE COMETA Hymn to the Peoples...
