The Souls of Black Folk

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The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal 1903 collection of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois that explores African American life after the Civil War and famously introduces the concepts of "double consciousness" and "the veil."

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The Souls of Black Folk canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
essay collection
author W. E. B. Du Bois
closingEssay Of the Sorrow Songs
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes economic conditions of African Americans in the South
education at historically black colleges
experience of African Americans after the Civil War
psychological effects of racism
genre African-American studies
nonfiction
sociology
hasLiteraryForm autobiographical narrative
essays
social criticism
hasPart Of Alexander Crummell
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Alabama Black Belt
surface form: Of the Black Belt

Of the Coming of John
Of the Dawn of Freedom
Of the Faith of the Fathers
Of the Meaning of Progress
Of the Passing of the First-Born
Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
Of the Sons of Master and Man
Of the Sorrow Songs
Of the Training of Black Men
Of the Wings of Atalanta
influenced African American literature
surface form: African-American literature

American civil rights movement
surface form: civil rights movement

critical race theory
sociology of race
influencedBy Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction era
surface form: Reconstruction in the United States

abolitionist thought
language English
mainSubject African American life
Reconstruction era
civil rights
education of African Americans
race relations in the United States
sociology of race
notableConcept color line
double consciousness
the veil
notableFor early use of sociological analysis of race
integration of spirituals as epigraphs
numberOfEssays 14
openingEssay Of Our Spiritual Strivings
publicationDate 1903
publisher A. C. McClurg & Co.
structure collection of essays
timePeriodCovered Reconstruction era
surface form: Reconstruction and its aftermath

post–Civil War United States

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W. E. B. Du Bois notableWork The Souls of Black Folk
Dusk of Dawn influencedBy The Souls of Black Folk
the color line firstProminentlyFormulatedIn The Souls of Black Folk