 | The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays Subjects: Du Bois W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868–1963 -- Political and social views; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations; African Americans -- Ci; The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays assembles essential essays by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - thinker, writer, scholar, activist, leader - from half a dozen years on each side, respectively, of the turning of the twentieth century, from 1894 to early 1906. In this essays are the first formulations of some of Du Bois's most famous ideas, namely, "the veil," "double-consciousness," and the "problem of the color line." Clustered around the turn of the century, they comprise a kind of essential companion to The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Bois W. E. B. Du : W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a leading scholar, writer, and political activist. For twenty-three years he was the editor of The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. Apart from hundreds of essays and diverse short works, he published more than twenty book length texts during his lifetime, among the most well-known of which are The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, and The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.Chandler Nahum Dimitri : Nahum Dimitri Chandler serves on the faculty of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, in African American Studies, ComparativeLiterature, and European Languages and Studies. He is the author of X: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought and The Problem of Pure Being: Annotations on the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and the Discourses of the Negro, both from Fordham, as well as Toward an African Future - Of the Limit of World. |
