Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0195091787, Paperback)

The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader encompasses the whole of Du Bois' long and multifaceted writing career, from the 1890s through the early 1960s. The volume selects key essays and longer works that portray the range of Du Bois's thought on such subjects as African American culture, the politics and sociology of American race relations, art and music, black leadership, gender and women's rights, Pan Africanism and anti-colonialism, and Communism in the U.S. and abroad. Reprinted in their entirety are Du Bois's most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), and his landmark work on colonialism, Darkwater (1920), which contains many of Du Bois's best-known shorter essays. Key chapters drawn from full-length studies, including The Philadelphia Negro, The Gift of Black Folk, In Battle for Peace, and Du Bois's posthumous autobiography are supplemented by dozens of shorter essays covering topics in literature, education, African politics, urban studies, and American foreign policy. Supplemented by by an extensive critical introduction and headnotes to major works and topics, this Oxford Reader offers the most extensive compilation of Du Bois's writings now available.