Web du bois biography of a race
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Henry Holt & Company, , New York. Hard Cover. Book condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine. First printing with a full number line starting with "1". Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. /2" tall, numbered pages includes "Notes", "Selected Writings of W. Bois" and "Index". This book is nearly pristine: the exterior is square, spotlessly clean, free of corner bumps and edge dings with slight bumping at the head and heel of the spine; a manufacturing error--the cloth part of the hinge was improperly attached and a part of it droops below the text block (see photo); due to the thickness of the book, the text block sags somewhat, causing a slight distortion in the upper portion of the spine; hinges are strong. The interior is perfectly clean and completely free of writing, stray marks, stains and any sort of paper damage. Not remaindered, ex-library or Book Club edition. The
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December 12,
A Great and Difficult ManBy WALDO E. MARTIN JR.
W. E. B. ni BOIS Biography of a Race, By David Levering Lewis. |
n , W. E. B. ni Bois () observed that "the bekymmer of the 20th century is the problem of the color line." That prophecy haunts us as we stumble toward the 21st. Early in his life ni Bois concluded that his personal destiny was inextricably tied to the liberation struggle of his people, "the race" -- first African-Americans and later Africans everywhere. ni Bois saw himself as an intellectual and activist working for the realization of the hopes of the world's dispossessed and for progressive social movements in all nations. For him, the black liberation struggle was neither narrow nor provincial; it was a driving wedge in all movements for liberation and self-determination, especially those waged bygd people of color, the third world, or what he also called "the darker peoples." So the subtitle of David Lever
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, –
Nonfiction book written by David Levering Lewis
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| Author | David Levering Lewis |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Henry Holt |
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| Publication place | United States |
| Media&#;type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
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| Preceded&#;by | The Harlem Renaissance Reader (editor)&#; |
| Followed&#;by | When Harlem Was in Vogue&#; |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, – is a nonfiction book written by historian David Levering Lewis and published in by Henry Holt and Company. The book studies the early and middle years of Du Bois's life. It is the first in a two-part biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in , as did Lewis's second installment, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century , winning the Pulitzer in [1]