Best Selling Books by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

This book contains powerful arguments that show the problem of the position of black people in the US at the turn of the 20th-century. Du Bois identified three significant issues (''the color line''; ''double consciousness''; and ''the veil'') that acted as roadblocks to true black emancipation, and showed how each of these in turn contributed to the problem of inequality. Du Bois carefully investigates all three problems, constructing clear explanations of their significance in shaping the consciousness of a community that has been systematically discriminated against, and dealing brilliantly with counter-arguments throughout.

Originally published in 1911, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was the first novel to come from world-famous sociologist and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois. A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it follows the story of free-spirited Zora, child of a Southern swamp, and her romance with Yankee-educated Bles, who will eventually face the opportunity to claim political power through corrupt means. In the middle of it all is the silver fleece, a crop of cotton rich with meaning and symbolism.

Originally published in 1899, this is one of the first works to combine the use of urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics. The issues the book raises and the evolution of DuBois''s own thinking about the problems of black integration into American society sound strikingly contemporary. This book has become a classic work in social science literature.

V.1 The Ordeal of Mansart; v.2 Mansart Builds a School

The World and Africa and Color and Democracy are two of W E. B. Du Bois''s most powerful essays on race. He explores how to tell the story of those left out of recorded history, the evils of colonialism worldwide, and Africa''s and African''s contributions to, and neglect from, world history.

The first book in W. E. B. Du Bois''s Black Flame trilogy, The Ordeal of Mansart, chronicles Mansart''s early life during the time of Reconstruction through his involvement in black education in Atlanta. The Ordeal of Mansart offers readers a peek into African American life and struggle through the lens of Mansart''s humble life.

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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."--Publisher.