TY - ABST T1 - Dark Princess. A Romance Y1 - 1928 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with an excellent African-American medical student being denied the right to continue because, as a black, he is not permitted to do the required section on obstetrics. He flees the country and meets other colored people who hope to create a united body to work for their betterment. For personal reasons, he rejects their overtures and returns to the U.S., where he becomes an up-and-coming politician married to a wealthy, well-connected woman. After numerous setbacks, he reconnects with the other colored peoples who have a plan for a better future that will be developed over the coming fifteen years. There is, though, a disagreement, which, not resolved with in novel, between those who believe in violence as a means and those who reject it. 

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Rpt. Millwood, NY: Kraus Thompson, 1974, with an “Introduction” by Herbert Aptheker (5-29); Jackson: Banner Books University Press of Mississippi, 1995; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 with an "Introduction" by Homi K. Bhabha (xxv-xxxi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil Y1 - 1920 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) ED - W. E. B. Du Bois KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt

Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears.

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“The Comet” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. .

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Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii). 

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