In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significance.
Table of Contents:
1: The Plot; 2: A New England Boy and Reconstruction; 3: Education in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century; 4: Science and Empire; 5: The Concept of Race; 6: The White World; 7: The Colored World Within; 8: Chapter 8 Propaganda and World War; 9: Revolution
Review :
-DuBois has done well for his own future standing in the light of history and for the correct interpretation of his people and their problem by writing this noteworthy book.-
--Saturday Review
-DuBois describes in a mood of mounting intensity, sternly held in check, his own changing attitudes towards the restricting bars set up against the world of color. The story of DuBois' life, devoted to a program of action against these restrictions, presents an unforgettable picture of the changing life of our time.-
--Library Journal
"DuBois has done well for his own future standing in the light of history and for the correct interpretation of his people and their problem by writing this noteworthy book."
--Saturday Review
"DuBois describes in a mood of mounting intensity, sternly held in check, his own changing attitudes towards the restricting bars set up against the world of color. The story of DuBois' life, devoted to a program of action against these restrictions, presents an unforgettable picture of the changing life of our time."
--Library Journal
"DuBois has done well for his own future standing in the light of history and for the correct interpretation of his people and their problem by writing this noteworthy book."
--Saturday Review
"DuBois describes in a mood of mounting intensity, sternly held in check, his own changing attitudes towards the restricting bars set up against the world of color. The story of DuBois' life, devoted to a program of action against these restrictions, presents an unforgettable picture of the changing life of our time."
--Library Journal
"DuBois has done well for his own future standing in the light of history and for the correct interpretation of his people and their problem by writing this noteworthy "book.""
"--Saturday Review"
"DuBois describes in a mood of mounting intensity, sternly held in check, his own changing attitudes towards the restricting bars set up against the world of color. The story of DuBois' life, devoted to a program of action against these restrictions, presents an unforgettable picture of the changing life of our "time.""
"--""Library Journal"
