The Souls Of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois - Bog

“William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the author of this small, paradigm-shifting book, was a brilliant polymath, a pioneering historian and sociologist, a fierce advocate for racial justice, and a towering social philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest black geniuses of the modern era. In The Souls of Black Folk , he sought to synthesize the different modes of inquiry that he was trained in—philosophy, history, rhetoric, and sociology—in order to produce a sweeping mural of epic history and local color telling the story of black life in America.” —JESSE MCCARTHY, from the Introduction ...