As we begin this last week of Black History Month it is with great excitement that I blog about one of the library's most recent acquisitions. The Oxford W.E.B. Dubois is a 19-volume collection of writings by one of the great minds of the 20th century. These works are on display in the library foyer, and all of these volumes are now available for checkout.
One thing I learned about this author and scholar while working with these books over the past week is that he was also a fiction writer. I have always associated Du Bois with titles such as The Souls of Black Folk, yet five books in this group are works of fiction.
Here's the complete list of works that comprise the Oxford Du Bois collection:
- The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1896)
- The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (Harvard Ph.D. thesis, 1896)
- The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
- John Brown (1909)
- Quest of the Silver Fleece ( 1911)
- The Negro (1915)
- Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920)
- The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (1924)
- Dark Princess: A Romance (1924)
- Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 (1935)
- Black Folk, Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939)
- Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940)
- The World and Africa; and, Color and Democracy (1945, 1946)
- In battle for Peace: The Story of my 83rd Birthday (1952)
- The Ordeal of Mansart (Volume I of The Black Flame trilogy, 1957)
- Mansart Builds a School (Volume II of The Black Flame trilogy, 1959)
- Worlds of Color (Volume III of the Black Flame trilogy, 1961)
- The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century (1968)
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