{"product_id":"darkwater-the-givens-collection-9780743460606","title":"Darkwater: The Givens Collection","description":"W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published \u003ci\u003eDarkwater\u003c\/i\u003e -- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk.\u003c\/i\u003e Throughout his long life and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and educator, Du Bois's body of work illumined America's understanding of the \"problem of the color line.\" While much of his early texts were sociological investigations of the Black community, the author increasingly incorporated autobiographical, poetic and spiritual elements into his works. The results are some of the most electrifying commentaries ever written on race and class in America. \u003cbr\u003e After decades of obscurity, this literary jewel is presented with a new introduction written by David Levering Lewis, author of \u003ci\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963;\u003c\/i\u003e Lewis is the foremost scholar of the work of Du Bois. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"If \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e achieved its singular impact through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and the universal in such a way that each appropriated something of the illustrative and symbolic value of the other, much of \u003ci\u003eDarkwater: Voices from Within the Veil\u003c\/i\u003e was a cri de coeur in which the author's anger at the absurdities of racial prejudice crackled through the text like electric jolts that scorched, illumined, or stunned.\" \u003cbr\u003e -- David Levering Lewis, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDu Bois, W. E. B.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - William Edward Burghardt \"W. E. B.\" Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872776491282,"sku":"9780743460606","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2726e6b2-8ae1-47b0-b5e2-22586516aedb.jpg?v=1737909892","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/darkwater-the-givens-collection-9780743460606","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}