LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Duke Ellington
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Fats Waller
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W.E.B. Dubois
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Louis Armstrong
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Souls of Black Folk, from which this week’s ten-minute read is taken, is an important text written in the United States by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1903. This influential book of essays is foundational to the writing and politics of the century(s) that followed. It also makes for powerfully immediate reading.
Detailed explanation-2: -W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is a seminal work in African American literature and an American classic.
Detailed explanation-3: -The subtitle of The Souls of Black Folk is “Essays and Sketches.” Together, the title and subtitle indicate a collection which offers the reader variations upon a theme. The fourteen chapters which comprise the main body of the book were written between 1897 and 1903.
Detailed explanation-4: -"The Souls of Black Folk is a series of essays (some of which had been previously published) in which William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced due bóyss), 1868-1963, presents his argument about a path toward progress for African Americans: enfranchisement, political power, and education.
Detailed explanation-5: -240 Pages, 5.50 x 8.25 x 0.63 in, 18 b-w illus.