W.E.B. Du Bois and the souls of black folk /Stephanie J. Shaw.
- Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Striving: Work, Culture, and Liberty; 2. The Sovereignty of Soul; 3. "The Talented Tenth" Revisited; 4. Spirit: Alexander Crummell, Prophets, and Destiny; Reading Souls with Phenomenology: A Preface to Chapter 5; 5. The Religion and Songs of Souls; Part I: The Art and Religion of Souls and Hegel's "Experience of Consciousness"; Part II: The Songs of Souls and Hegel's "Philosophy of Spirit"; Part III: The Songs of Souls and Hegel's "Absolute Knowledge"; Conclusion: "O World of Worlds, How Shall Man Make You One?"; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E. FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Demonstrating the importance of the work as a sociohistorical study of black life in America through the turn of the twentieth century and offering new ways of thinking about many of the topics introduce.
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