“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color
line.” These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois’s
influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent
Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the
trauma of seeing the Reconstruction era’s promise of racial
equality cruelly dashed by the rise of white supremacist terror and
Jim Crow laws. Yet he also argued for the value of African American
cultural traditions and provided inspiration for countless civil
rights leaders who followed him. Now artist Paul Peart-Smith offers
the first graphic adaptation of Du Bois’s seminal work.
Peart-Smith’s graphic adaptation provides historical and cultural
contexts that bring to life the world behind Du Bois’s words.
Readers will get a deeper understanding of the cultural
debates The Souls of Black Folk engaged in, with more
background on figures like Booker T. Washington, the advocate of
black economic uplift, and the Pan-Africanist minister Alexander
Crummell. This beautifully illustrated book vividly conveys the
continuing legacy of The Souls of Black Folk, effectively
updating it for the era of the 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter.
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