Darkwater Av W. E. B. Du Bois

<b>A new edition of the classic work of Black history and politics with a new introduction by award-winning poet and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.<br><br>“Du Bois essentially defined black America in the twentieth century.”</b><br><b>– Ta-Nehisi Coates</b><br><br>“I have been in the world, but not of it,” begins this searing and passionate book by legendary scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. A continuation of his celebrated work <i>The Souls of Black Folk, Darkwater</i> describes the devastation of segregation, slavery, and the global color line that veiled half the world’s people in shadow. <br><br>First published in 1920, Darkwater gives voice to the rising power of the “darker races” around the world; it frames Africa’s blistering indictment of Europe in a study of the curious and twisted souls of white folk; and it includes Du Bois’s landmark essay “The Damnation of Women,” in which he explores gender