Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

by W.E.B. Du Boise, Sujan Dass (Editor), R. L'Heureux Lewis (Introduction)

Overview

This isn't the Du Bois you read about in school. Written after Souls of Black Folk, this book presents a more fiery and controversial side of the famed W. E. B. Du Bois. In Darkwater, Du Bois experiments with presentation, jumping from sociopolitical essays to poetry and science fiction. His perspectives are also groundbreaking and ahead of their time (and perhaps ours). He argues against religious ignorance, advocates for the upliftment of women, analyzes "whiteness," prophecizes massive social collapse, and promotes the idea that the darker people of the globe may be the world's salvation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013588851
Publisher:	Supreme Design Publishing
Publication date:	11/08/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

W.E.B. Du Bois was an intellectual leader in the United States as sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Massachusetts, Du Bois graduated from Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D in History, the first African-American to earn a doctorate at Harvard. Later he became a professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. As head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910, he was founder and editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. Du Bois rose to national attention in his opposition of Booker T. Washington's alleged ideas of accommodation with Jim Crow separation between whites and blacks and disfranchisement of blacks in the South, campaigning instead for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights, and the formation of a black intellectual elite who would work for the progress of the African-American race.

Editorial Reviews

There is, to my mind, no better example of Du Bois's critical engagement of the dialectics of colonialism and capitalism, and racism and sexism, and the interlocking, intersecting and inter-connecting nature of each of the aforementioned than his 1920 monumental pièce de résistance, Darkwater.

Dr. Reiland Rabaka

Like Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois's masterpiece Darkwater is filled with brilliant ideas and experimental methodology. Beginning with autobiography and ending with a chilling science fiction story about the destruction of Manhattan, Du Bois provides pathbreaking sociological analysis.

Historian J.R. Feagin (2003)

People will wish that this book had not been written. Actually it is a book so skilfully put together, so passionately felt, so lyrically expressed, that it will be read widely. May it also be read wisely!

R. Foerster