{"id":43844,"date":"2015-11-08T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43844"},"modified":"2016-03-25T21:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:21:31","slug":"w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-souls-of-black-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43844","title":{"rendered":"W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=3448\" target=\"_blank\">W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina Press<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 2015<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\n6.125 x 9.25, notes, index<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2643-7<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/history.osu.edu\/directory\/Shaw1\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie J. Shaw<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Ohio State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=3448\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aerbook.s3.amazonaws.com\/books\/10991\/assets\/9780807838730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43806\" target=\"_blank\">The Souls of Black Folk<\/a><\/em> focus on the veils, the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_line_(civil_rights_issue)\" target=\"_blank\"> color line<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double_consciousness\" target=\"_blank\">double consciousness<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Booker_T._Washington\" target=\"_blank\">Booker T. Washington<\/a>, Shaw reads Du Bois&#8217; book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating the importance of the work as a sociohistorical study of black life in America through the turn of the twentieth century and offering new ways of thinking about many of the topics introduced in <em>Souls<\/em>, Shaw charts <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\">Du Bois&#8217;<\/a> successful appropriation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hegelianism\" target=\"_blank\">Hegelian<\/a> idealism in order to add America, the nineteenth century, and black people to the historical narrative in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel\" target=\"_blank\">Hegel\u2019s<\/a> philosophy of history. Shaw adopts Du Bois&#8217; point of view to delve into the social, cultural, political, and intellectual milieus that helped to create <em>The Souls of Black Folk<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk University of North Carolina Press August 2015 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2643-7 Stephanie J. Shaw, Professor of History Ohio State University In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1196,8,17,394,20],"tags":[21818,21819,667,122],"class_list":["post-43844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-stephanie-j-shaw","tag-stephanie-shaw","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press","tag-w-e-b-du-bois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43845,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions\/43845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}