Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

by W. E. B. Du Bois

Overview

First published in 1920, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is a collection of fiery essays, sketches, and poems the distinguished American civil rights leader, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois first published individually more than 100 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals.

Part essay, part autobiography, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of women and Eurocentric standards of beauty, the historical rise of the idea of whiteness, and the abridgement of democracy along race, class, and gender lines. Reflecting the author’s ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reforms for black Americans.

"Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is an essential reading for students of African-American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835898078
Publisher:	E-BOOKARAMA
Publication date:	03/06/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	926,704
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. He was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. He is the author of numerous books, including the seminal The Souls of Black Folk and his 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America.

Table of Contents

	Postscript	ix
	Credo	1
Chapter I.	The Shadow of Years: A Litany at Atlanta	3
Chapter II.	The Souls of White Folk: The Riddle of the Sphinx	17
Chapter III.	The Hands of Ethiopia: The Princess of the Hither Isles	32
Chapter IV.	Of Work and Wealth: The Second Coming	47
Chapter V.	"The Servant in the House" Jesus Christ in Texas	63
Chapter VI.	Of the Ruling of Men: The Call	78
Chapter VII.	The Damnation of Women: Children of the Moon	95
Chapter VIII.	The Immortal Child: Almighty Death	114
Chapter IX.	Of Beauty and Death: The Prayers of God	130
Chapter X.	The Comet: A Hymn to the Peoples	149

Editorial Reviews

Du Bois essentially defined black America in the 20th century with his notion of ‘double consciousness’—the idea that African Americans experience everything in this world both as Americans and as black people. Scholars have come up shaky in their efforts to update Du Bois’s simple, but ingenious formula.”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates

“[Du Bois was] the greatest of the early civil-rights leaders, a figure of towering significance in American politics and letters … Remembered for his single-minded commitment to racial justice and his capacity to shape black consciousness, Du Bois used language and ideas to hammer out a strategy for political equality and to sound the depths of the black experience in the aftermath of slavery.”
—Stuart Hall

“The greatest of the early civil-rights leaders, a figure of towering significance in American politics and letters.”
—Guardian

“Du Bois’ philosophy is significant today because it addresses what many would argue is the real world problem of white domination.So long as racist white privilege exists, and suppresses the dreams and the freedoms of human beings, so long will Du Bois be relevant as a thinker, for he, more than almost any other, employed thought in the service of exposing this privilege, and worked to eliminate it in the service of a greater humanity.”
—Donald J. Morse

“Advocate, statesman, negotiator, defender,champion, ambassador, griot, and peerless challenger of the system, Du Bois was all these things and more of—and for—our national self … He was the best prime minister we ever had for our State That Never Was.”
—Bill Strickland

“In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois’s Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil issued a call for an anti-colonial, internationalist approach to historical and social science scholarship.”
—Dialectical Anthropology

“The lasting power of Darkwater’s democratic vision … consists not only in what Du Bois is able to see; it also encompasses what he enables readers to see anew – and, possibly, both differently and further than Du Bois himself.”
—Lawrie Balfour, Political Theory

“In Darkwater DuBois writes what appears as a guide for ‘colored men and women’ on childrearing. But, as it concerns the residents of the future, it is, in fact, a revolutionary political agenda.”
—The New Centennial Review

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