The World of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Quotation Sourcebook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313286193)

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the leading activist men of letters in 20th-century America. Du Bois organized, protested, laid out programs, petitioned, and raised questions of long-term strategy and short-term tactics. He wrote detailed scholarly investigations, Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction among them, as well as popular current articles. He was a commanding speaker and a prodigious correspondent. And yet, it was not until the 1980s that his complete writings became available.

The World of W.E.B. Du Bois was created to provide a short journey through his views on virtually all aspects of 20th-century life. More than 1,000 quotations from his published writings and correspondence are provided. These are grouped into 19 topical and one miscellaneous chapter. Each quote begins with a heading designed to summarize the main sense of the quotation. A subject index provides additional access to the ideas of this complex figure. Essential reading for all involved in American race relations and intellectual history and American and Black Studies.

Author: Meyer Weinberg, W. E. B. Du Bois
ISBN-10: 0313286191
ISBN-13: 9780313286193
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1992
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.44w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/1992