![]() ![]() Indeed, the continuity bridging the moment of Souls’ first appearance to the time of this newly reprinted volume from Vann R. To say that we have found a solution to America’s racial divergence would be misleading when one considers our current political and social climates. Du Bois begins with the question that lingers in the African American collective psyche: “How does it feel to be a problem?” The book’s purpose could be seen as formulating an early critique to white hegemony, which increasingly saw blackness, both culturally and politically, as problematic. Written as a collection of essays, a short story, songs and poems, Souls traces a psychological and philosophical narrative on race unlike any text before it, and quite frankly, after it. 239įirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk remains an iconic text that conceptualizes what it means to be black in America. ![]()
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