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The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) : A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century, Paperback / softback Book

The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) : A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century Paperback / softback

Edited by Henry Louis, Jr. (W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W. E. B. D Gates

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community.

He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement.

Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.

Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Published posthumously in 1968, The Autobiography of W.

E. B. Du Bois is his last and most complete autobiography.

Covering his life over almost a century of living in America, it's the closest thing we have to a true autobiography of this important scholar and activist.

The book, broken up into three parts, delves into the 90-year-old Du Bois's thoughts on everything from his relationship with sex to his storied association with the NAACP to his political persecution during the Cold War years to his many travels abroad.

As Du Bois writes, he takes the reader on a journey to "view my life as frankly and fully as I can." With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Werner Sollors, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

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