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by: W.E.B. Dubois
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
EAN: 9781416500414
ISBN: 1416500413
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: July 26, 2005
Publisher: Pocket
Sales Rank: 86187
Studio: Pocket
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Product Description:
Enduring Liturature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship
A revolutionary collection of essays about the African-American experience at the turn of the twentieth century.
This Enriched Classic Edition includes:
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson
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Rating:  - New Pregnant Meanings for each Decade
These essays, actually sketches and ruminations of DuBois', remain an enduring backdrop for the picture in which race in America is framed. At the end of each decade, they seem to continue emitting new pregnant meanings:
During the decade of the 60s, when I first read the book, it seemed to be an open message to white America about the Negro: an appeal, as it were, that "the Negro was on the march," and that his main instrument of entering the American mainstream (his only secure dream) ... Read More
Rating:  - Souls of Black Folk
The Soul's of Black folk is an storied-tale of Negro's hardships, challenges and racial barriers during post-slavery. It highlights various stories of the Negro expeirence in an informative and pragmatic form. The Soul's of Black Folk is a good read; however, it does not provide a comphrensive state of the Negro expierence. It focuses on the deep South and the illiteracy and complaceny of black folk among other things, but it does not provide in-depth historical expeirenes of the Negro people. In sum, ... Read More
Rating: - A seminal work and a recognized milestone
Complete and unabridged, W.E.B. DuBois seminal 1903 publication, The Souls Of Black Folk is now available in an audiobook format (6 cassettes, 9 hours). This little book did more to shape the consciousness of African--Americans than any other and after a century, continues to hold the status of being a major work of both American literature. Superbly narrated by Warren Hazlittl and enhanced with a piano accompaniment by Jim Popoulous, The Souls Of Black Folk remains a seminal work and a recognized milestone ... Read More
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