The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader by Sundquist

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader by Sundquist

This reader reprints The Souls of Black Folk in its entirety along with all of the later work Darkwater. The collection includes a range of DuBois's writing over the course of his lifetime, showing the evolution of this thinking on major issues such as history, biography, segration and education, literature and art, and representative essays on the relation betweem black Americans and Africa.

"An excellent selection of his writings"--Anna M. Cenklin, Spalding University "Every academic discipline has its pioneers or persons who set forth seminal ideas which undergird the discipline. In my judgment, one of the major patron saints of Africana studies is undoubtedly W.E.B. Du Bois. The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader is an excellent resource because it pulls together under one cover the major writings of our major scholar. This material is must reading for all Africana studies majors and minors and for all people desirous of understanding the African American's quest for social justice in America."--Warren C. Swindell, Indiana State University "This is clearly the very best treatment of the writing of Du Bois in print. It makes his important writing Du Bois come alive and appear manageable for the average college student in one volume. The selected writings cut to the heart of the essence of Du Bois' thinking."--Glenn O. Phillips,Morgan State University-Baltimore "It should be required reading in courses on the history of ideas and social thought."--D. Wilkinson, University of Kentucky-Lexington "A very comprehensive study of the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois."--Dr. Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University-Bures Creek "A excellent book of sources."--Paul L. Simon,Xavier University "A magnificent collection of Du Bois' most important writing, conveniently compiled in one place. Presentation is excellent."--Patrick Rael,Bowdoin Colleges-Brunswick "This appears to be the collection to choose for a thorough and broadly representative volume of Du Bois' writings. It contains the complete The Soul of Black Folk (the central Du Bois text), plus a wide selection of shorter essays." --David M. Robinson, Oregon State University--Corvallis "Bravo! A well selected, well edited collection of the major writing in one volume, with a superb introduction."--Forrest Robinson, University College of Santa Cruz--Santa Cruz "Terrific compilation-I love the density and range. Will be useful for upper division and graduate courses."--Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, University of Kentucky--Lexington

Charles W. Chestnutt (1858-1932) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where his family had moved from Fayettefille, North Carolina, to seek better economic opportunities. Shortly after the Civil War, they returned to Fayetteville, where Chesnutt spent most of his childhood and young adulthood. He taught in local public schools, eventually returning to Cleveland and being admitted to the bar. He established a legal stenography business yet found himself strongly attracted to writing fiction. He published two collections of short stories, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1890) and three widely reviewed novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and The Colonel's Dream (1905), while devoting essays and speeches to agitation for civil rights for African Americans, especially in the South. Unable to support his family as a full-time writer, he resumed his business career but maintained until his death a respected role in African American letters.

Eric J. Sundquist is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches courses about American literature and culture. His books include King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech and Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. Professor Sundquist has also edited essay collections on Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

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ISBN 10	0195091787
Title	The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader
Author	Sundquist
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1996-03-28
Number of pages	688
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