The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois

Book Overview

W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521692059
• ISBN13: 9780521692052
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"