A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistA Penguin Classic WhenThe Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903 it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the soul of a race by knowing the souls of individuals W. E. B. Du Bois combines history and stirring autobiography to reflect on the magnitude of American racism and to chart a path forward against oppression and introduces the now-famous concepts of the color line the veil and double-consciousness.Penguin Vitae loosely translated asPenguin of one's life is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration intellectual engagement and creative originality. ReviewI was assigned this book of essays in college and it was transformative for me as a person and a writer. Du Bois captures the complexity and the interiority of what it's like to be black in the United States and even though it was written more than a century ago the way Du Bois writes makes it feel like he wrote this book last year. -Tom... See more
A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistA Penguin Classic WhenThe Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903 it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the soul of a race by knowing the souls of individuals W. E. B. Du Bois combines history and stirring autobiography to reflect on the magnitude of American racism and to chart a path forward against oppression and introduces the now-famous concepts of the color line the veil and double-consciousness.Penguin Vitae loosely translated asPenguin of one's life is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration intellectual engagement and creative originality. ReviewI was assigned this book of essays in college and it was transformative for me as a person and a writer. Du Bois captures the complexity and the interiority of what it's like to be black in the United States and even though it was written more than a century ago the way Du Bois writes makes it feel like he wrote this book last year. -Tomi Adeyemi#1 New York Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone in the Good Morning America Book ClubA work that is still relevant today... Vividly depict[s] what it was like to be black... Many of the ideas that Du Bois outlined in the book still endure... [A book] for anyone who wants to understand America. -Lynn Neary NPR's Morning Edition[The Souls of Black Folk is] the foundation on which Du Bois built a lifetime of ideas and on which the black and antiracist intelligentsia continues to build today... In 1903... black newspapers... typically shouted in unisonSHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON WHITE AND BLACK.'... And today it still SHOULD BE READ AND STUDIED BY EVERY PERSON. -Ibram X. Kendi from the Introduction About the Author William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was born in Great Barrington Massachusetts. A sociologist historian poet and writer of several novels Du Bois was one of the main founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was a lifelong critic of American society and an advocate of black people against racial injustice. He spent his last years in Ghana where he died in exile at the age of ninety-five.Ibram X. Kendi (introduction) is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. A contributing writer atThe Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent he is a coeditor with Keisha N. Blain of the #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—Four Hundred Souls and the author of many other books includingThe Black Campus Movement which won the W. E. B. Du Bois Book Prize;Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; and three #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—s:How to Be an Antiracist;Stamped: Racism Antiracism and You co-authored with Jason Reynolds; andAntiracist Baby illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. A MacArthur Fellow and one ofTime magazine's 100 most influential people in the world Kendi lives in Boston Massachusetts. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Forethought Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange mea
