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Oxford world s classicsTHE Souls OF Black FOLKW. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on23 February 1868. In 1885 he went to Fisk University where heedited the Fisk Herald. After graduating in June 1888 he continuedhis studies at Harvard College, gaining an MA degree in history in1891. Following further study at the Friedrich Wilhelm Universityin Berlin, he returned to the United States in 1894 to take a teachingposition in classics at Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio. DuBois became the first Black to receive his from Harvard in1895 and moved to Philadelphia the next year to pursue a socio-logical study of Black life there. After accepting a faculty position ineconomics and history at Atlanta University, he gained renown as anintellectual in the next decade with the publication of The Souls ofBlack Folk (1903) and his participation in the Niagara Movement, agroup of Black leaders assembled in 1905 to promote full civil andeconomic rights for blacks.

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1 Oxford world s classicsTHE Souls OF Black FOLKW. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on23 February 1868. In 1885 he went to Fisk University where heedited the Fisk Herald. After graduating in June 1888 he continuedhis studies at Harvard College, gaining an MA degree in history in1891. Following further study at the Friedrich Wilhelm Universityin Berlin, he returned to the United States in 1894 to take a teachingposition in classics at Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio. DuBois became the first Black to receive his from Harvard in1895 and moved to Philadelphia the next year to pursue a socio-logical study of Black life there. After accepting a faculty position ineconomics and history at Atlanta University, he gained renown as anintellectual in the next decade with the publication of The Souls ofBlack Folk (1903) and his participation in the Niagara Movement, agroup of Black leaders assembled in 1905 to promote full civil andeconomic rights for blacks.

2 In 1910 Du Bois moved to New York,where he accepted a position at the National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People (NAACP) as the editor of the civilrights organization s monthly journal, The Crisis. In February 1919in Paris, Du Bois organized the First Pan-African Congress, whichgathered delegates from the United States, the Caribbean, Europe,and Africa. He continued to publish a steady stream of importantbooks, including Darkwater (1920),Dark Princess (1928), and BlackReconstruction (1935). After a series of political conflicts, Du Boisresigned from The Crisis in 1934 and returned to Atlanta University,where he founded and edited another journal, Phylon.

3 Increasinglyradical in his public criticism of US foreign policy and race relationsafter the Second World War, Du Bois worked with pacifist organ-izations and the Council on African Affairs. After celebrating hisninetieth birthday in New York, Du Bois toured Europe, the SovietUnion, and China in 1958 and 1959. In 1961 he accepted theinvitation of Kwame Nkrumah, the president of independentGhana, to move to Africa. Du Bois died in Ghana on 27 August1963, on the eve of the monumental civil rights protest march inWashington, Hayes Edwards is an associate professor in the Depart-ment of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of ThePractice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of BlackInternationalism (2003), the co-editor of the essay collection UptownConversation: The New Jazz Studies (2004), and the editor of JosephConrad s Nostromo (2004) and Frederick Douglass s My Bondageand My Freedom (2005).

4 Oxford world s classicsFor over 100 years Oxford World s Classics have broughtreaders closer to the world s great literature. Now with over 700titles from the 4,000-year-old myths of Mesopotamia to thetwentieth century s greatest novels the series makes availablelesser-known as well as celebrated pocket-sized hardbacks of the early years containedintroductions by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene,and other literary figures which enriched the experience of the series is recognized for its fine scholarship andreliability in texts that span world literature, drama and poetry,religion, philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptivecommentary and essential background information to meet thechanging needs of WORLD S CLASSICSW.

5 E. B. DU BOISThe Souls of Black FolkEdited with an Introduction and Notes byBRENT HAYES EDWARDS13 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dpOxford University Press is a department of the University of furthers the University s objective of excellence in research, scholarship,and education by publishing worldwide inOxford New YorkAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong KarachiKuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City NairobiNew Delhi Shanghai Taipei TorontoWith offices inArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France GreeceGuatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal SingaporeSouth Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine VietnamOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Pressin the UK and in certain other countriesPublished in the United Statesby Oxford University Press Inc.

6 , New YorkEditorial material Brent Hayes Edwards 2007 The moral rights of the author have been assertedDatabase right Oxford University Press (maker)First published as an Oxford World s Classics paperback 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriatereprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproductionoutside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department,Oxford University Press, at the address aboveYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or coverand you must impose this same condition on any acquirerBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataData availableLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataDu Bois, W.

7 E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868 Souls of Black folk / W. E. B. Du Bois ; edited with anintroduction and notes by Brent Hayes cm. (Oxford world s classics paperback)Includes bibliographical 978 0 19 280678 9 (pbk. : alk. paper)1. African Edwards, Brent 2007973 .0496073 dc22 ISBN 978 0 19 280678 913579108642 Typeset in Ehrhardtby RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, SuffolkPrinted in Great Britainon acid-free paper byClays Ltd., St Ives on the TextxxivSelect BibliographyxxviiiA Chronology of W. E. B. Du BoisxxxTHE Souls OF Black FOLK1 Appendix I: The Conservation of Races179 Appendix II: The Talented Tenth189 Appendix III: Self-Review and Fifty Years After 206 Explanatory Notes209 This page intentionally left blank INTRODUCTIONS ince its publication in April 1903,The Souls of Black Folk hasjustifiably been celebrated as the definitive text of the AfricanAmerican literary tradition.

8 A seemingly modest collection of four-teen pieces framed by a preface and afterword, the book made animmediate impact on American political debate, erupting with thesudden brilliance of fireworks going off in a cemetery .1 It launchedits author, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, an ambitious35-year-old African American professor of sociology at AtlantaUniversity, into international prominence as an authoritative voiceon what was then termed the Negro problem . With its unusualpolyphony of genres autobiography, history, political criticism,sociology, ethnography, biography, eulogy, fiction the book has hada formative influence on the entire tradition of African Americanwriting that has followed in its wake.

9 As literary critic Arnold Ram-persad has written: If all of a nation s literature may stem from onebook, as Hemingway implied about The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn, then it can as accurately be said that all of Afro-Americanliterature of a creative nature has proceeded from Du Bois s com-prehensive statement on the nature of the people in The Souls ofBlack Folk. 2 One finds its formal strategies and rhetorical daringechoed in novels from James Weldon Johnson sThe Autobiographyof an Ex-Colored Man (1912) to Ralph Ellison sInvisible Man (1952)and Toni Morrison sSong of Solomon (1977) and beyond. Yet DuBois s work has been equally central to African American non-fictionand scholarship on race, history, and politics.

10 Ten years after itspublication, the Black intellectual William H. Ferris called The Soulsof Black Folk the political Bible of the negro race .3 It is one of thevery rare books that marks the threshold of its historical era (the dawning of the Twentieth Century , to use Du Bois s phrase), both1 David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868 1919 (NewYork: Henry Holt, 1993), Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois (Cambridge,Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976), H. Ferris, The African Abroad; or, His Evolution in Western Civilization,vol. i (New Haven: Tuttle, Morhouse, and Taylor, 1913), articulating the political demands, cultural accomplishments, and spiritual strivings of an entire people, and at the same time bysetting the definitive terms of debate for a national dialogue aboutthe significance of race in the lingering aftermath of the slave H.


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