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W. E. B. Du Bois

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The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois's 1903 landmark, where rigorous sociology, history, and lyric essay fuse into a founding text of Black American thought. It named the color line as the century's central problem and gave us the enduring idea of double consciousness.