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Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is a 1940 autobiographical text by W. E. B. Du Bois that examines his life and family history in the context of contemporaneous developments in race relations.
Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois's second autobiography, was published in 1940. [265] The title refers to his hope that African Americans were passing out of the darkness of racism into an era of greater equality. [266] The work is part autobiography, part history, and part sociological treatise. [267]
Later in Dusk of Dawn, a collection of his writings, Du Bois redefines this notion, acknowledging contributions by other men. He writes that "my own panacea of an earlier day was a flight of class from mass through the development of the Talented Tenth; but the power of this aristocracy of talent was to lie in its knowledge and character, not ...
Du Bois was a prolific author and journalist who published many books, novels and articles in his lifetime. He also penned three memoirs, the most accessible of which is probably “Dusk of Dawn ...
However, financial issues were also at play. In his 1940 memoir Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois wrote that the periodical suffered during the Great Depression as the "circulation dropped steadily until by 1933 it was scarcely more than ten thousand paid subscriptions."
Du Bois summarized the work this way: The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and ...
Written when he was 50, Darkwater is the first of Du Bois's three autobiographies and was followed by Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept, and The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century.
Pages in category "Works by W. E. B. Du Bois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Dusk of Dawn; J. John Brown (biography) N. The Negro; P.