Darkwater
by W. E. B. Du Bois | 
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin | 
Sundown Towns
by James W. Loewen | 
White Rage
by Carol Anderson | 
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson | 
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin | 
The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli | 
On Tyranny
by Timothy Snyder | 
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine | 
Ill Fares the Land
by Tony Judt | 
Why I Write
by George Orwell | 
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau | 
Upside Down
by Eduardo Galeano | 
Reappraisals
by Tony Judt | 
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
by Alexis De Tocqueville | 
The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler | 
The Chomsky Reader
by Noam Chomsky | 
Making the Future
by Noam Chomsky | 
The Soul of Man under Socialism
by Oscar Wilde | 
The Death of Truth
by Michiko Kakutani |
'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing account of the situation of African Americans in the United States. Du Bois makes a forceful case for the access of African Americans to higher education, memorably extols the achievements of black culture (above all the spirituals or 'sorrow songs'), and advances the provocative and influential argument that due to the inequalities and pressures of the 'race problem', African American identity is characterized by 'double consciousness'. This edition includes a valuable appendix of other writing by Du Bois, which sheds light on his attitudes and intentions.