Dusk of Dawn!: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of Race Concept / Edition 1

by W. E. B. Du Bois, W. E. Du Bois, Irene Diggs

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878559176
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1983
Series:	Black Classics in Social Science Series
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	366
Sales rank:	690,455
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was the cofounder of the NAACP. He was educated at the University of Berlin and Harvard University, and he was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard. He taught at Wilberforce University in Ohio, the University of Pennsylvania, and Clark Atlanta University (where he established the department of social work). He is the author of numerous writings, including Worlds of Color; Africa in Battle against Colonialism, Racialism, Imperialism; and In Battle for Peace.

Irene Diggs is professor of sociology and anthopology, Morgan State University. She was formerly research assistant and secretary to W.E.B. DuBois.

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

Editorial Reviews

-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"

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