W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the
twentieth century, published "Darkwater" -- a powerful collection
of essays, verse and fiction -- in 1920, two decades after his most
famous book, "The Souls of Black Folk." Throughout his long life
and extraordinary career as a scholar, activist, writer and
educator, Du Bois's body of work illumined America's understanding
of the "problem of the color line." While much of his early texts
were sociological investigations of the Black community, the author
increasingly incorporated autobiographical, poetic and spiritual
elements into his works. The results are some of the most
electrifying commentaries ever written on race and class in
America.
After decades of obscurity, this literary jewel is presented
with a new introduction written by David Levering Lewis, author of
"W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919" and "W.E.B. Du
Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963; "
Lewis is the foremost scholar of the work of Du Bois.
"If "The Souls of Black Folk" achieved its singular impact
through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and
the universal in such a way that each appropriated something of the
illustrative and symbolic value of the other, much of "Darkwater:
Voices from Within the Veil" was a cri de coeur in which the
author's anger at the absurdities of racial prejudice crackled
through the text like electric jolts that scorched, illumined, or
stunned."
-- David Levering Lewis, from the Introduction
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