Others address the ongoing debates of the time about the best way to improve black lives. In his introduction to the new edition of The Souls Of Black Folk, Kendi writes that Du Bois wanted the world "to know the humanity of black folk." Some of the essays, like one about his time as a teacher in the rural South, vividly depict what it was like to be black. It's a collection of essays on black life and race relations in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. To celebrate, The Souls Of Black Folk has been republished. "And the beings that did not have souls were beasts."įriday is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Du Bois, the great African-American thinker and writer. "Racist Americans were making the case that black people did not have souls," Kendi says. Du Bois wasn't looking for a catchy title - he was reacting to the reality of his times. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America. Du Bois called his book The Souls Of Black Folk, says Ibram X. Du Bois' The Souls Of Black Folk has been re-published in a new edition for the author's 150th birthday anniversary.
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