The Souls of White Folk

Authors

  • W. E. B. Du Bois

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-055-06-2003-10_6

Keywords:

Race, History, Inequality

Abstract

"The Souls of White Folk," as it appeared in Du Bois' Darkwater (1920) and is reprinted here, was based on an essay in the Independent, August 18, 1910, together with part of a another essay, "Of the Culture of White Folk," Journal of Race Development, April 1917. The final version in Darkwater was reworked numerous times up to its final publication in 1920.

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Published

2003-11-06

Issue

Vol. 55, No. 6: November 2003

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