• Human Conditions: ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Sep 10 2024
  • Length: 14 mins
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Human Conditions: ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois

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  • Brent Hayes Edwards and Adam discuss the ‘ur-text of Black political philosophy’, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Spanning autobiography, history, biography, fiction, music criticism and political science, its fourteen essays set the tone for Black literature, political debate and scholarly production for the course of the 20th century. Souls was an immediate bestseller, the subject of furious debate and a foundational work in the new field of sociology.


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    Brent Hayes Edwards is a scholar of African American and Francophone literature and of jazz studies at Columbia University.

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