His work is brilliant, both the scholarship and the writing
Josephine Browne, PhD, MA
“But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?” Then always, somehow, some way, silently but clearly, I am given to understand that whiteness is the ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!
— W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”
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The Souls of White Folk by W.E.B Du Bois is a searing examination of whiteness taken from his Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920).