No. 10 · The Well-Read 30The Souls of Black FolkW. E. B. Du Bois1903
Politics & society · 1903
The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois blends history, sociology, memoir, and music to describe Black life after Reconstruction and the color line shaping America.
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Its account of double consciousness remains one of the clearest ways into American identity, race, citizenship, and power.
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