The Souls of Black Folk


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text

The Text of The Souls of Black Folk

Contexts
POLITICAL CONTEXT
    Booker T. Washington · The Standard Printed Version of the
      Atlanta Exposition Address
    W.E.B. Du Bios · [Obituary of Booker T. Washinton]
    Alexander Crummell · Civilization, the Primal Need of the
      Race
    W.E.B. DU Bois · The Conservation of Races
    ·The Niagara Movement: Address to the Country
PERSONAL CONTEXT
    W.E.B. Du Bois · [Application Letter to Harvard ]
    ·From A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the Nineteenth
      Century
    ·[Celebrating His Twenty-fifth Birthday]
    PHOTOGRAPHS: A. Radclyffe Dugmore · From The Negro As He
      Really Is
    W.E.B. Du Bois · Credo
    · A Litany of Atlanta

Criticism
EARLY CRITICISM
    David Levering Lewis · From W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a
      Race
    William James · [Praise for Souls]
    [Anonymous] · [Review of Souls]
    John Spencer Bassett · Two Negro Leaders
    John Daniels · [Review of Souls]
MODERN CRITICISM
    Dickson D. Bruce Jr. · W.E.B. Du Bois and the Idea of Double
      Consciousness
    Robert Gooding-Williams · Du Bois's Counter-Sublime
    Nellie McKay · From W.E.B. Du Bois: The Black Women in His
      Writings- Selected Fictional and Autobiographical Portraits
    Susan Mizruchi · Neighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death and
      Sympathy in the Early Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois
    Arnold Rampersad · Slavery and the Literary Imagination: DU Bois's
      The Souls of Black Folk
    Eric J. Sundquist · From Swing Low: The Souls of Black Folk
    Shamoon Zamir · "The Sorrow Songs"/"Song of Myself": Du
      Bois, the Crisis of Leadership, and Prophetic Imagination

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

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