Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

DuBois was the most influential black intellectual in American history one whose voice and thoughts continue to enlighten and educate readers today and this is a collection of his most inspired short-form writing. Collecting essays and poems from publications such as The Atlantic and The Journal of Race Development this 1920 volume-provocative and aggressive and unflattering to the dominant white culture-raised the ire of many mainstream critics of the day which continues to make it all the more valuable a read today. Included here are: . The Shadow of Years . The Souls of White Folks . The Hands of Ethiopia . Of Work and Wealth . The Servant in the House . Of the Ruling of Men . The Damnation of Women . The Immortal Child . Of Beauty and Death . The Comet . and more American writer civil rights activist and scholar WILLIAM EEDWARD BURGHARDT DUBOIS (1868-1963) was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University. A co-founder of the NAACP he wrote a number of important books including The Philadelphia Negro (1899) Black Folk Then and Now (1899) and The Negro (1915).