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The souls of black folk [electronic resource] : essays and sketches / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 (Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary:

Du Bois proposes that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." His concepts of life behind the veil of race and the resulting "double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others," have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. Souls offers an assessment of the progress of the race, the obstacles to that progress, and the possibilities for future progress as the nation entered the twentieth century.

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Physical Description: 1 online resource
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:	Text scanned (OCR) by Katherine Lofton. Images scanned by Katherine Lofton. Text encoded by Andrew Leiter and Jill Kuhn Sexton. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community. Title from electronic title page.
Formatted Contents Note:	Of our spiritual strivings -- Of the dawn of freedom -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and 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 -- The sorrow songs -- The after-thought.
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: The souls of black folk : essays and sketches / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. 2nd ed. Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903. v-ix, 265 p. : music. "Published April 18, 1903 Second edition June 1, 1903"--Title page verso.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publications of this title.
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