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Race and America

No subject has drawn sharper American criticism than race. Here Du Bois names double-consciousness, Ida B. Wells documents lynching as terror, and Twain turns his fury on the mob. Primary-source criticism, free to read in full.

The essays (5), free to read in full

  1. 01Of Our Spiritual StrivingsW. E. B. Du Bois
  2. 02Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and OthersW. E. B. Du Bois
  3. 03The Red RecordIda B. Wells
  4. 04The United States of LyncherdomMark Twain
  5. 05Of the Sorrow SongsW. E. B. Du Bois

Modern books on this theme

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  • The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin
  • Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates

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