W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk

A Graphic Interpretation

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Paul Peart-Smith (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2466-9 (ISBN)

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With Souls of Black Folk (first published in 1903), W.E.B. Du Bois famously set forth his analysis of the folk culture, including religious folk culture, that would be the basis for future progress. In doing so, he pleaded for education and a new sensibility. But he made clear that the promise of these would not come ‘from the outside’.

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the trauma of seeing the Reconstruction era's promise of racial equality cruelly dashed by the rise of white supremacist terror and Jim Crow laws. Yet he also argued for the value of African American cultural traditions and provided inspiration for countless civil rights leaders who followed him. Now artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of Du Bois's seminal work.

Peart-Smith's graphic adaptation provides historical and cultural contexts that bring to life the world behind Du Bois's words. Readers will get a deeper understanding of the cultural debates The Souls of Black Folk engaged in, with more background on figures like Booker T. Washington, the advocate of black economic uplift, and the Pan-Africanist minister Alexander Crummell. This beautifully illustrated book vividly conveys the continuing legacy of The Souls of Black Folk, effectively updating it for the era of the 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter.

PAUL PEART-SMITH, an artist of Afro-Caribbean and British background, has been working in the comics industry since the early 1990s, when he worked on Judge Dredd. Co-curator of the comics exhibition Black Power, he now lives in Tasmania. PAUL BUHLE has been a key creative force in the development of comics for more than fifty years, publishing one of the first alternative comics, as well as editing graphic novels on subjects ranging from the Wobblies to Che Guevara. He is the coeditor of Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press). HERB BOYD is a veteran journalist of African American life and culture, working frequently with artists. JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY is the twenty-first president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.

Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway
I Of Our Spiritual Strivings
II Of the Dawn of Freedom
III Of Booker T. Washington
IV Of the Meaning of Progress
V Of the Training of Black Folk
VI Of the Passing of the First-Born
VII Of Alexander Crummell
VIII Of the Coming of John
IX Of the Sorrow Songs
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2023
Einführung	Jonathan Scott Holloway
Zusatzinfo	30 bw, 102 color illustrations
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 216 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2466-1 / 1978824661
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2466-9 / 9781978824669
Zustand	Neuware