W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

Autor von The Souls of Black Folk. Die Seelen der Schwarzen

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Civil rights leader and author, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868. He earned a B.A. from both Harvard and Fisk universities, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, and studied at the University of Berlin. He taught briefly at Wilberforce mehr anzeigen University before he came professor of history and economics at Atlanta University in Ohio (1896-1910). There, he wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903), in which he pointed out that it was up to whites and blacks jointly to solve the problems created by the denial of civil rights to blacks. In 1905, Du Bois became a major figure in the Niagara Movement, a crusading effort to end discrimination. The organization collapsed, but it prepared the way for the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which Du Bois played a major role. In 1910, he became editor of the NAACP magazine, a position he held for more than 20 years. Du Bois returned to Atlanta University in 1932 and tried to implement a plan to make the Negro Land Grant Colleges centers of black power. Atlanta approved of his idea, but later retracted its support. When Du Bois tried to return to NAACP, it rejected him too. Active in several Pan-African Congresses, Du Bois came to know Fwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, and Jono Kenyatta the president of Kenya. In 1961, the same year Du Bois joined the Communist party, Nkrumah invited him to Ghana as a director of an Encyclopedia Africana project. He died there on August 27, 1963, after becoming a citizen of that country. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

Beinhaltet die Namen: W. Du Bois, W.E. DuBois, W. E. B. Du, W.E.B. DuBois, W.E.B. Duboise, DUBOIS W. E. B., William DFubois, W. E. B. DeBois, W. E. B. Bubois, W. E. B. Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, William E. B. DuBois, W.E. Burghardt DuBois, W.E. Burghardt du Bois, Du Bois W.E. Burghardt, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Willaim Edgar Burghardt DuBois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du W., Уильям Эдвард Бургхардт Дюбуа

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The Souls of Black Folk. Die Seelen der Schwarzen (1903) 5,247 Exemplare

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935) 810 Exemplare

The Souls of Black Folk: With The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folk (1903) 478 Exemplare

Du Bois: Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, Essays and… (1987) 457 Exemplare

Three Negro Classics (1901) 441 Exemplare

John Brown (1962) 294 Exemplare

The Souls of Black Folk [Norton Critical Editions] (1999) 274 Exemplare

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) 153 Exemplare

The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968) 146 Exemplare

The Souls of Black Folk [Bedford Cultural Editions] (1997) 142 Exemplare

W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader (1970) 140 Exemplare

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1968) 137 Exemplare

The World and Africa (1947) 135 Exemplare

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1634) 127 Exemplare

The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) 111 Exemplare

The Negro (1915) 111 Exemplare

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (1924) 102 Exemplare

Dark Princess (1975) 79 Exemplare

W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (LOA #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part whichBlack Folk Played in the… (2021) 69 Exemplare

Up from Slavery / The Souls of Black Folk / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (2007) — Mitwirkender — 59 Exemplare

The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906 - 1960 (1973) 57 Exemplare

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1920-1963 (1970) 57 Exemplare

An ABC of Color: Selections Chosen by the Author from Over a Half Century of His Writings (1964) 55 Exemplare

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader (1996) 55 Exemplare

Of the Dawn of Freedom (2009) 35 Exemplare

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1890-1919 (1970) 29 Exemplare

W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community (Heritage of Sociology Series) (1978) 26 Exemplare

Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961 (1985) 24 Exemplare

In battle for peace : the story of my 83rd birthday (1952) 22 Exemplare

The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the… (2003) 22 Exemplare

The selected writings of W. E. B. DuBois (1970) 20 Exemplare

The Negro in the South: His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development (1970) 19 Exemplare

The Illustrated Souls of Black Folk (Annotated, Illustrated, Documentary Editions) (2004) 19 Exemplare

Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) 18 Exemplare

Prayers for Dark People (1980) 18 Exemplare

The Comet (2001) 17 Exemplare

The Black Flame Trilogy Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) 16 Exemplare

The Souls of Black Folk, and Related Readings (1998) 16 Exemplare

The Wisdom of W. E. B. Du Bois (2003) 15 Exemplare

Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945) 15 Exemplare

Great African-American Writers: Seven Books (1998) 15 Exemplare

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays (American Philosophy… (2008) 15 Exemplare

The Black Flame Trilogy Book Three: Worlds of Color (1961) 15 Exemplare

The Social Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois (2004) 14 Exemplare

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois: Selections, 1877-1934 (1973) 13 Exemplare

The Black Flame Trilogy Book Two: Mansart Builds a School (1959) 13 Exemplare

The Negro American Family (History of Computing) (1970) 12 Exemplare

Du Bois on Religion (2000) 12 Exemplare

The seventh son;: The thought and writings of W. E. B. Du Bois (1971) 12 Exemplare

The Conservation of Races (2008) 11 Exemplare

The W. E. B. Du Bois Collection (2016) 11 Exemplare

The World and Africa and Color and Democracy (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) (2007) 11 Exemplare

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume II: Selections, 1934-1944 (1976) 11 Exemplare

The Talented Tenth (2013) 10 Exemplare

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois: 19-Volume Set (1957) 10 Exemplare

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois: Selections, 1944-1963 (Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois) (1978) 10 Exemplare

W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings (Dover Thrift Editions) (2013) 9 Exemplare

Africa: Its Geography, People, and Products [and] Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1977) 8 Exemplare

W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation (2023) 8 Exemplare

The emerging thought of W. E. B. Du Bois; essays and editorials from the Crisis (1972) 7 Exemplare

The Seventh Son (v. 2) (1986) — Autor — 7 Exemplare

Works of W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk, The Negro, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Darkwater,… 7 Exemplare

W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (2022) 6 Exemplare

The Seventh Son: Volume One Only (1986) — Autor — 6 Exemplare

The Sociological Souls of Black Folk: Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois (2011) 5 Exemplare

The Souls of Black Folk and Other Writings by W.E.B. Du Bois (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 4 Exemplare

Education and Empowerment: The Essential Writings of W.E.B. DuBois (2013) 4 Exemplare

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America: Examining African American History Through Du Bois’… 3 Exemplare

Behold the Land 3 Exemplare

The W.E.B. Dubois Collection 3 Exemplare

On Sociology and the Black Community (1987) 3 Exemplare

W. E. B. DuBois: the Crisis Writings (A Fawcett premier book) (1972) 3 Exemplare

The Black North in 1901; a social study 3 Exemplare

Black Voices on Britain: Selected Writings (2022) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare

Morals and manners among Negro Americans (2010) 3 Exemplare

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom / The Souls of Black Folk / Behind the Scenes / Life of Josiah Henson / Narrative… (2015) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare

黒人のたましい (1992) — Autor — 2 Exemplare

Pamphlets and Leaflets (W. E. B. Du Bois Works) (1985) 2 Exemplare

Africa: Its Place in Modern History 2 Exemplare

A select bibliography of the Negro American. A compilation made under the direction of Atlanta university; together… 2 Exemplare

The Negro American artisan. Report of a social study made by Atlanta university under the patronage of the trustees of… 2 Exemplare

Selections from the Brownies Book (Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, Selected Works.) 2 Exemplare

Crisis 2 Exemplare

The story of Benjamin Franklin 2 Exemplare

Black American Classics: 11 books in a single file (Samizdat Edition with Active Table of Contents), improved 2/27/2011 (2009) 2 Exemplare

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Complete Works of W. E. B. du Bois (Grapevine edition) 1 Exemplar

A W.E.B. Du Bois reader 1 Exemplar

The Souls of Black Folk / Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass 1 Exemplar

THE CRISIS WRITINGS 1 Exemplar

The Greatest Works of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Darkwater,… 1 Exemplar

The Common School And The Negro American (1911) (2010) 1 Exemplar

The Negro Problem 1 Exemplar

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870; Volume I (2022) 1 Exemplar

The Social Evolution of The Black South 1 Exemplar

Black�reconstruction in America; an�essay�toward�a�history�of the�part�which�black�folk�played�in… 1 Exemplar

The Souls of White Folk 1 Exemplar

Memorabilia 1 Exemplar

Darkwater (Voices from Within the Veil) [with Biographical Introduction] 1 Exemplar

John Brown (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 Exemplar

A W.E.B. Dubois Reader 1 Exemplar

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century 1 Exemplar

The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois: Volume III Selections - 1944-1963 1 Exemplar

The Robin Redbreast 1 Exemplar

The Education of Black People: ten critiques, 1906-1960 1 Exemplar

W.E.B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Link 1 Exemplar

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1890-1919 1 Exemplar

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks - Speeches and Addresses 1920-1963 1 Exemplar

A W.E.B. Du Bois Reader 1 Exemplar

De ziel van zwart Amerika (2022) 1 Exemplar

The Selected Speeches of W.E.B Dubois (1996) 1 Exemplar

Writings by W.E.B. Du Bois in periodicals edited by others (1982) 1 Exemplar

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Annotated and Illustrated Edition (with Audiobook Access) 1 Exemplar

W. E. B. DuBois' Confrontation with White Liberalism During the Progressive Era : A Phylon Document 1 Exemplar

Sulla sociologia (2012) 1 Exemplar

Jesus Christ In Texas 1 Exemplar

[African American girl, half-length portrait, standing at table with illustrated book, facing slightly right] 1 Exemplar

An Appeal to the World: A Statement on the Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of Citizens of Negro… 1 Exemplar

Africa in Battle Against Colonialism, Racialism, Imperialism 1 Exemplar

The Negro in Business: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 Exemplar

The Talented Tenth 1 Exemplar

The college-bred negro; a report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University in 1900 1 Exemplar

The Negro in the South 1 Exemplar

The W. E. B. Du Bois Collection 1 Exemplar

The Conservation of Races 1 Exemplar

Of the Coming of John 1 Exemplar

Strivings of the Negro People (From The Atlantic Archives) 1 Exemplar

The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays (American Philosophy) 1 Exemplar

Works of W. E. B. Du Bois 1 Exemplar

Selected Poems (1965) 1 Exemplar

Economic co-operation among Negro Americans. Report of a social study made by Atlanta university under the patronage of… 1 Exemplar

Selections from Phylon (1980) 1 Exemplar

Life Seen at Ninety 1 Exemplar

Newspaper columns (1986) 1 Exemplar

Creative writings by W.E.B. Du Bois : a pageant, poems, short stories, and playlets (1985) 1 Exemplar

DARKWATER (Annotated) 1 Exemplar

The Amenia conference : an historic Negro gathering 1 Exemplar

Best of DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk and Strivings of the Negro People (2020) 1 Exemplar

The Negro and The Social Evolution of the Black South: Illustrated Black History Collection (2020) 1 Exemplar

Of the Passing of the First-Born (American Roots) (2018) 1 Exemplar

On Being Black: An In-Group Analysis...Essays in Honor of W.E.B. Dubois (1986) 1 Exemplar

The health and physique of the Negro American. Report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta university;… 1 Exemplar

Peace is dangerous 1 Exemplar

The W. E. B. DuBois Memorial Address 1 Exemplar

The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery: Two Visions, One Mission (2019) 1 Exemplar

The Negro and Other Works by W.E.B. Du Bois (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 1 Exemplar

Freedman's Bureau. In The Atlantic 1 Exemplar

约翰・布朗 Yuehan Bulang 1 Exemplar

Encyclopedia of the Negro 1 Exemplar

Efforts for social betterment among negro Americans. Report of a social study made by Atlanta university under the… 1 Exemplar

黒人のたましい (2006) — Autor — 1 Exemplar

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Rechtmäßiger Name: DuBois, William Edward Burghardt
Geburtstag: 1868-12-23
Todestag: 1963-08-27
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA (birth)
Ghana (naturalization)
Geburtsort: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
Sterbeort: Accra, Ghana
Wohnorte: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Berlin, Germany
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
USSR
Manhattan, New York, USA (Zeige alle 7)
Ghana
Ausbildung: Fisk University (BA|1888)
Harvard University (BA|History|1890)
Harvard University (MA|1891)
Harvard University (PhD|1896)
University of Berlin
Berufe: professor
sociologist
publisher
editor
essayist
playwright (Zeige alle 12)
novelist
reporter
historian
poet
travel writer
screenwriter
Beziehungen: Du Bois, Shirley Graham (2nd wife)
Cullen, Countee (son-in-law)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (friend)
Santayana, George (teacher)
James, William (teacher)
Schmoller, Gustav von (teacher) (Zeige alle 10)
Treitschke, Heinrich von (teacher)
Ovington, Mary White (friend)
Kelley, Florence (friend)
Bontemps, Arna (friend)
Organisationen: Wilberforce University
University of Pennsylvania
Atlanta University
American Negro Academy (president)
Niagara Movement (co-founder and general secretary)
Moon Illustrated Weekly (founder and editor) (Zeige alle 18)
The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line (founder and editor)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (co-founder)
Crisis (co-founder editor)
The Brownies' Book (founder and editor)
National Guardian
Peace Information Center (chairman)
American Labor Party (candidate for U.S. Senate)
Pan-African Congress (organizer)
Council of African Affairs (vice chairman)
Encyclopedia of the Negro (editor-in-chief)
Encyclopaedia Africana (director)
Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement (cofounder)
Preise und Auszeichnungen: First black American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University
Fellowship, John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen
Coined the expression "Talented Tenth"
Published the first black American illustrated weekly
First black American invited by the American Historical Association
Spingarn Medal, NAACP (Zeige alle 16)
International Lenin Peace Prize, USSR
His house was declared a National Historic Landmark
United States Postal Service stamp
The Extra Mile medallion
Feast Day, Episcopal Church
Honorary Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Knight Commander of Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption
Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, President Coolidge
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame

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The Souls of Black Folk: A Library of America… von W.E.B. Du Bois

This collection of fourteen essays is written in an ornate style that shouldn’t obscure their enduring relevance, one hundred twenty years after the book appeared. Not that everything has remained the same since then—even Du Bois developed and changed his thinking over time. Perhaps conditions are not precisely as rendered in the two essays based on his sociological fieldwork in Dougherty County, in southwest Georgia. Nevertheless, they brought to mind and helped me understand what my child’s eyes took in uncomprehendingly sixty-five, seventy years ago as we drove the pre-Interstate Georgia roads.
Perhaps the felt relevance indicates that material change can outpace change in attitude and perception.
One of my favorite essays dealt with the history of the Black church. Another, on the death at eighteen months of his firstborn, was a poignant, bitter expression of the divided soul of the Black man.
Reading this book, I was struck again by the thought that accompanied me throughout my visit to the Smithsonian African American History and Culture Museum. No matter which side of what Du Bois calls “the Veil” we find ourselves on, this is our story. This is a book about and for all of us.… (mehr)

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The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches von W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

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Black Voices on Britain: Selected Writings von Hakim Adi

Hakim Adi's selection of writings about Britain (mainly England) by Black people of the late 18th to the early 20th century is carefully chosen to establish their presence in all strata of society at a date earlier than certain commentators would wish it known. There's a thread showing the development of abolitionism into emancipation into supremacism to justify the continued exploitation of Black Labour, and Adi's selections often strongly resonate with current issues, such as the Windrush scandal and the illegal Tory Rwanda deportation policy.

There's also many fascinating glimpses into Georgian and Victorian society and, while varying degrees of racism are noted, many of the impressions of visitors to the island are positive about their reception and of the culture in which they find themselves.

A nuanced and balanced selection of historical testimonies which I thoroughly enjoyed reading, not least the short section on John Ocansey's day trip from Liverpool to my home town of Southport 🏖️… (mehr)

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The Souls of Black Folk von W.E.B. Du Bois

While interesting to see what has changed (and sadly note what has not), I found that these essays didn't impact me the way [a:Zora Neale Hurston|15151|Zora Neale Hurston|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1194472605p2/15151.jpg]'s [b:Their Eyes Were Watching God|37415|Their Eyes Were Watching God|Zora Neale Hurston|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1368072803s/37415.jpg|1643555] or [a:Alice Walker|7380|Alice Walker|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1406752585p2/7380.jpg]'s [b:The Color Purple|11486|The Color Purple|Alice Walker|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386925078s/11486.jpg|3300573] did. I guess I relate to the more intimate personal lives shown in novels than the same situation shown in aggregate form in nonfiction. The parts I liked best were the ones that dealt with individuals, such as 'Of the Coming of John'.… (mehr)

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