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出版社:BANTAM BOOKS
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ISBN:0553213369
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作者:W.E.B.Du Bois著
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頁數:192
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出版日期:1989-07-01
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印刷日期:1989-07-01
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包裝:平裝
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版次:2
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印次:1
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On April 18, 1903, A.C. McClurg and Company of Chicago published The Souls of Black Folk, just two months after the author's thirty-fifth birthday. Between 1903 and 1905, no less than six printings of the book were necessary to satisfy demand. Despite his young age, the author, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868--1963), had become by the turn of the century "one of the two or three best-known Afro-Americans in the nation," as the historian Herbert Aptheker accurately observes. Indeed, Du Bois's emergence as a dominant pofitical figure in the Afro-American community as without parallel in the history of black leadership, because his vehicle to prominence was the written word...
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"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the
color line,"Thus speaks WE B Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk,
one of the most prophetic and influential works in American
literature In this eloquent collection of essays, first published
in 1903,Du Bois dares as no one had before to describe the
magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it He draws on
his own life for illustration,from his early experiences teaching
in the hills of Tennessee to the death of his infant son and his
historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker
T.Washington.
Far ahead of its time, The Souls of Black Folk both
anticipated and inspired much of the black consciousness and
activism of the 1960s and is a classic in the literature of civil
rights. The elegance of Du Bois"s prose and the passion of his
message are as crucial today as they were upon the book"s first
publication.
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Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Forethought Of Our Spiritual Strivings Of the Dawn of Freedom Of Mr. Booker T. Washingtonand Others Of the Meaning of Progress Of the Wings of Atalanta Of the Training of Black Men Of the Black Belt Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece Of the Sons of Master and Man Of the Faith of the Fathers Of the Passing of the First-Born Of Alexander Crummell Of the Coming of John Of the Sorrow Songs The Afterthought Selected Bibliography
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