{"product_id":"the-souls-of-black-folk-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393973938","title":"The Souls of Black Folk: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"This collection of essays on African American history, culture, and society probes fundamental issues of race and justice and documents Du Bois's conviction that the \"soul\" of the black community must be preserved and revered. The text reprinted here is that of the first book edition (1903).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Contexts\" presents a fascinating collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Also included are eighteen photographs that accompanied Du Bois's 1901 article \"The Negro As He Really Is.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Criticism\" offers thirteen contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois and \u003cem\u003eSouls\u003c\/em\u003e, rounding out the picture of this enduring work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGates, Henry Louis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eLife Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlack in Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eTradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFigures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLoose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eColored People: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Race with Cornel West\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWonders of the African World\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Trials of Phillis Wheatley\u003c\/em\u003e. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries \u003cem\u003eFinding Your Roots\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlack in Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAfrican American Lives 1 and 2\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLooking for Lincoln\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAmerica Beyond the Color Line\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWonders of the African World\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eAfrican American National Biography\u003c\/em\u003e with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and \u003cem\u003eThe Dictionary of African Biography\u003c\/em\u003e with Anthony Appiah; \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia Africana\u003c\/em\u003e with Anthony Appiah; and \u003cem\u003eThe Bondwoman's Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHume Oliver, Terri:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTerri Hume Oliver\u003c\/strong\u003e is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. The title of her dissertation is \u003cem\u003eThe Ends of Childhood: An American Rhetoric of Minority\u003c\/em\u003e. She has published reference entries on Cynthia Ozick, Susan Cheever, and Robert Beck, and was a research assistant for \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDu Bois, W. E. B.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eW. E. B. Du Bois\u003c\/strong\u003e, a sociologist, historian, writer, and civil rights activist, is recognized as one of the foremost intellectual leaders of the twentieth century. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868. He attended Fisk University, Humboldt University, and was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University, in 1895. He was a foundational member of the international Pan-Africanist movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. From 1910 to 1934 he edited \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e, the NAACP's flagship journal. In his later years, he and his wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois, traveled around the globe supporting anticolonial, antimilitarist, and communist struggles. Du Bois died in Accra, Ghana, on August 27, 1963. \u003cem\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of essays published in 1903, is his best-known work.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324046250258,"sku":"9780393973938","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4da849c-b21a-49ec-94cd-05bb07435315.jpg?v=1762333725","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-souls-of-black-folk-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393973938","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}