Imatge de l'autor

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

Autor/a de The Souls of Black Folk

142+ obres 10,347 Membres 106 Ressenyes 15 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Civil rights leader and author, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868. He earned a B.A. from both Harvard and Fisk universities, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, and studied at the University of Berlin. He taught briefly at Wilberforce mostra'n més University before he came professor of history and economics at Atlanta University in Ohio (1896-1910). There, he wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903), in which he pointed out that it was up to whites and blacks jointly to solve the problems created by the denial of civil rights to blacks. In 1905, Du Bois became a major figure in the Niagara Movement, a crusading effort to end discrimination. The organization collapsed, but it prepared the way for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which Du Bois played a major role. In 1910, he became editor of the NAACP magazine, a position he held for more than 20 years. Du Bois returned to Atlanta University in 1932 and tried to implement a plan to make the Negro Land Grant Colleges centers of black power. Atlanta approved of his idea, but later retracted its support. When Du Bois tried to return to NAACP, it rejected him too. Active in several Pan-African Congresses, Du Bois came to know Fwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, and Jono Kenyatta the president of Kenya. In 1961, the same year Du Bois joined the Communist party, Nkrumah invited him to Ghana as a director of an Encyclopedia Africana project. He died there on August 27, 1963, after becoming a citizen of that country. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Sèrie

Obres de W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 5,202 exemplars
Three Negro Classics (1901) 438 exemplars
John Brown (1962) 288 exemplars
W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader (1970) 140 exemplars
The World and Africa (1947) 134 exemplars
The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) 111 exemplars
The Negro (1915) 111 exemplars
Dark Princess (1975) 79 exemplars
Of the Dawn of Freedom (2009) 34 exemplars
Prayers for Dark People (1980) 18 exemplars
The Comet (2001) 17 exemplars
The Wisdom of W. E. B. Du Bois (2003) 15 exemplars
Du Bois on Religion (2000) 12 exemplars
The W. E. B. Du Bois Collection (2016) 11 exemplars
The Conservation of Races (2008) 11 exemplars
The Talented Tenth (2013) 10 exemplars
The Seventh Son (v. 2) (1986) — Autor — 7 exemplars
The Seventh Son: Volume One Only (1986) — Autor — 6 exemplars
Black Voices on Britain: Selected Writings (2022) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Behold the Land 3 exemplars
黒人のたましい (1992) — Autor — 2 exemplars
Crisis 2 exemplars
Selections from Phylon (1980) 1 exemplars
THE CRISIS WRITINGS 1 exemplars
De ziel van zwart Amerika (2022) 1 exemplars
The Negro Problem 1 exemplars
Memorabilia 1 exemplars
The Robin Redbreast 1 exemplars
John Brown (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplars
Newspaper columns (1986) 1 exemplars
The Talented Tenth 1 exemplars
Selected Poems (1965) 1 exemplars
Sulla sociologia (2012) 1 exemplars
Life Seen at Ninety 1 exemplars
Peace is dangerous 1 exemplars
黒人のたましい (2006) — Autor — 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Col·laborador — 513 exemplars
Cane [Norton Critical Edition] (1988) — Col·laborador — 482 exemplars
The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (1925) — Col·laborador — 433 exemplars
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016) — Col·laborador — 411 exemplars
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) — Col·laborador — 404 exemplars
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature (Mentor) (1968) — Col·laborador — 321 exemplars
The Essential Feminist Reader (2007) — Col·laborador — 316 exemplars
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2005) — Col·laborador — 199 exemplars
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It (1918) — Col·laborador — 190 exemplars
Freedom Road (1944) — Pròleg, algunes edicions190 exemplars
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Col·laborador — 169 exemplars
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Col·laborador — 166 exemplars
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Col·laborador — 162 exemplars
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (1999) — Col·laborador — 149 exemplars
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (1962) — Col·laborador — 141 exemplars
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (1976) — Col·laborador — 106 exemplars
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
The Black Power Revolt (1968) — Col·laborador — 71 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006) — Col·laborador — 65 exemplars
Racism and Sexism: An Integrated Study (1988) — Col·laborador — 62 exemplars
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2021) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
American Negro Short Stories (1966) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
American Christmas Stories (2021) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
The Signet Book of American Essays (2006) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
Writing Politics: An Anthology (2020) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories (2018) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Graphic Classics: African-American Classics (2011) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
Wade in the Water: Great Moments in Black History (1979) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Negro in depression and war; prelude to revolution, 1930-1945 (1969) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day (2017) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era (2004) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Voices from the Radium Age (MIT Press / Radium Age) (2022) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Africa: A Foreign Affairs Reader (1964) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Intersections Collection: Pearson Custom Sociology (2008) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Mainstream volume 9 number 11 December 1956 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
De komeet (2023) — Inspirator — 1 exemplars

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Nom oficial
DuBois, William Edward Burghardt
Data de naixement
1868-12-23
Data de defunció
1963-08-27
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA (birth)
Ghana (naturalization)
Lloc de naixement
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
Lloc de defunció
Accra, Ghana
Llocs de residència
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Berlin, Germany
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
USSR
Manhattan, New York, USA (mostra-les totes 7)
Ghana
Educació
Fisk University (BA|1888)
Harvard University (BA|History|1890)
Harvard University (MA|1891)
Harvard University (PhD|1896)
University of Berlin
Professions
professor
sociologist
publisher
editor
essayist
playwright (mostra-les totes 12)
novelist
reporter
historian
poet
travel writer
screenwriter
Relacions
Du Bois, Shirley Graham (2nd wife)
Cullen, Countee (son-in-law)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (friend)
Santayana, George (teacher)
James, William (teacher)
Schmoller, Gustav von (teacher) (mostra-les totes 10)
Treitschke, Heinrich von (teacher)
Ovington, Mary White (friend)
Kelley, Florence (friend)
Bontemps, Arna (friend)
Organitzacions
Wilberforce University
University of Pennsylvania
Atlanta University
American Negro Academy (president)
Niagara Movement (co-founder and general secretary)
Moon Illustrated Weekly (founder and editor) (mostra-les totes 18)
The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line (founder and editor)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (co-founder)
Crisis (co-founder editor)
The Brownies' Book (founder and editor)
National Guardian
Peace Information Center (chairman)
American Labor Party (candidate for U.S. Senate)
Pan-African Congress (organizer)
Council of African Affairs (vice chairman)
Encyclopedia of the Negro (editor-in-chief)
Encyclopaedia Africana (director)
Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement (cofounder)
Premis i honors
First black American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University
Fellowship, John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen
Coined the expression "Talented Tenth"
Published the first black American illustrated weekly
First black American invited by the American Historical Association
Spingarn Medal, NAACP (mostra-les totes 16)
International Lenin Peace Prize, USSR
His house was declared a National Historic Landmark
United States Postal Service stamp
The Extra Mile medallion
Feast Day, Episcopal Church
Honorary Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Knight Commander of Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption
Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, President Coolidge
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame

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W.E.B. Du Bois? a Legacy Libraries (febrer 2016)

Ressenyes

This collection of fourteen essays is written in an ornate style that shouldn’t obscure their enduring relevance, one hundred twenty years after the book appeared. Not that everything has remained the same since then—even Du Bois developed and changed his thinking over time. Perhaps conditions are not precisely as rendered in the two essays based on his sociological fieldwork in Dougherty County, in southwest Georgia. Nevertheless, they brought to mind and helped me understand what my child’s eyes took in uncomprehendingly sixty-five, seventy years ago as we drove the pre-Interstate Georgia roads.
Perhaps the felt relevance indicates that material change can outpace change in attitude and perception.
One of my favorite essays dealt with the history of the Black church. Another, on the death at eighteen months of his firstborn, was a poignant, bitter expression of the divided soul of the Black man.
Reading this book, I was struck again by the thought that accompanied me throughout my visit to the Smithsonian African American History and Culture Museum. No matter which side of what Du Bois calls “the Veil” we find ourselves on, this is our story. This is a book about and for all of us.
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HenrySt123 | Hi ha 67 ressenyes més | Dec 10, 2023 |
Hakim Adi's selection of writings about Britain (mainly England) by Black people of the late 18th to the early 20th century is carefully chosen to establish their presence in all strata of society at a date earlier than certain commentators would wish it known. There's a thread showing the development of abolitionism into emancipation into supremacism to justify the continued exploitation of Black Labour, and Adi's selections often strongly resonate with current issues, such as the Windrush scandal and the illegal Tory Rwanda deportation policy.

There's also many fascinating glimpses into Georgian and Victorian society and, while varying degrees of racism are noted, many of the impressions of visitors to the island are positive about their reception and of the culture in which they find themselves.

A nuanced and balanced selection of historical testimonies which I thoroughly enjoyed reading, not least the short section on John Ocansey's day trip from Liverpool to my home town of Southport 🏖️
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Michael.Rimmer | Jul 12, 2023 |
While interesting to see what has changed (and sadly note what has not), I found that these essays didn't impact me the way [a:Zora Neale Hurston|15151|Zora Neale Hurston|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1194472605p2/15151.jpg]'s [b:Their Eyes Were Watching God|37415|Their Eyes Were Watching God|Zora Neale Hurston|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1368072803s/37415.jpg|1643555] or [a:Alice Walker|7380|Alice Walker|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1406752585p2/7380.jpg]'s [b:The Color Purple|11486|The Color Purple|Alice Walker|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386925078s/11486.jpg|3300573] did. I guess I relate to the more intimate personal lives shown in novels than the same situation shown in aggregate form in nonfiction. The parts I liked best were the ones that dealt with individuals, such as 'Of the Coming of John'.… (més)
 
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leslie.98 | Hi ha 67 ressenyes més | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Obres
142
També de
57
Membres
10,347
Popularitat
#2,296
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
106
ISBN
676
Llengües
12
Preferit
15

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