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Dusk of Dawn (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)

Dusk of Dawn (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)( )
Editor: Gates, Henry Louis
Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
Introduction by: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
ISBN:978-0-19-938671-0
Publication Date:Feb 2014
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $28.14AUD $57.95
Book Description:

Dusk of Dawn is an explosive autobiography of the foremost African American scholar of his time. Du Bois writes movingly of his own life, using personal experience to elucidate the systemic problem of race. He reflects on his childhood, his education, and his intellectual life, including the formation of the NAACP. Though his views eventually got him expelled from the association, Du Bois continues to develop his thoughts on separate black economic and social institutions in Dusk of...
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Book Details
Pages:222
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):23.724 x 15.646 x 1.168 cm
Book Weight:0.332 Kilograms
Author Biography
Du Bois, W. E. B. (Editor)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia. He received a degree in history from Yale University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Clare College, which is part of the University of Cambridge in 1979. He is a leading scholar of African-American literature, history, and culture. He began working on the Black Periodical Literature Project, which uncovered lost literary works published in 1800s. He rediscovered what is believed to be the first novel published by an African-American in the United States. He republished the 1859 work by Harriet E. Wilson, entitled Our Nig, in 1983.

He has written numerous books including Colored People: A Memoir, A Chronology of African-American History, The Future of the Race, Black Literature and Literary Theory, and The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. In 1991, he became the head of the African-American studies department at Harvard University. He is now the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at the university.

He wrote and produced several documentaries including Wonders of the African World, America Beyond the Color Line, and African American Lives. He has also hosted PBS programs such as Wonders of the African World, Black in Latin America, and Finding Your Roots.

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