W.E.B. Du Bois's collection of essays — part sociology, part autobiography, part cultural criticism — introducing double consciousness and analyzing the spiritual, political, and cultural life of Black Americans.
Introduces double consciousness and the Veil; argues that the problem of the 20th century is the color line; critiques Booker T. Washington's accommodationism; analyzes Black religious and musical culture as the highest spiritual expression of American life.
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