This volume assembles essential essays—some published only
posthumously, others obscure, another only recently translated—by
W. E. B. Du Bois from 1894 to early 1906. They show the first
formulations of some of his most famous ideas, namely, “the
veil,” “double-consciousness,” and the “problem of the
color line.” Moreover, the deep historical sense of the formation
of the modern world that informs Du Bois’s thought and gave rise
to his understanding of “the problem of the color line” is on
display here. Indeed, the essays constitute an essential companion
to Du Bois’s masterpiece published in 1903 as The Souls of Black
Folk. The collection is based on two editorial principles:
presenting the essays in their entirety and in strict chronological
order. Copious annotation affords both student and mature scholar
an unprecedented grasp of the range and depth of Du Bois’s
everyday intellectual and scholarly reference. These essays
commence at the moment of Du Bois’s return to the United States
from two years of graduate-level study in Europe at the University
of Berlin. At their center is the moment of Du Bois’s first full,
self-reflexive formulation of a sense of vocation: as a student and
scholar in the pursuit of the human sciences (in their
still-nascent disciplinary organization—that is, the
institutionalization of a generalized “sociology” or general
“ethnology”), as they could be brought to bear on the study of
the situation of the so-called Negro question in the United States
in all of its multiply refracting dimensions. They close with Du
Bois’s realization that the commitments orienting his work and
intellectual practice demanded that he move beyond the
institutional frames for the practice of the human sciences. The
ideas developed in these early essays remained the fundamental
matrix for the ongoing development of Du Bois’s thought. The
essays gathered here will therefore serve as the essential
reference for those seeking to understand the most profound
registers of this major American thinker.
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