Contested

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

An essay collection arguing that a Black American in this country lives behind a veil, seeing the nation clearly while being seen by it only partially, if at all. Du Bois coined language for that condition still in use today, over a century later. It is contested for reasons that have less to do with the book than with how accurately it still describes things.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 4 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Contested shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #408. In the public domain in the United States.