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thinking right now about the fact that W.E.B. DuBois was writing and thinking and growing for 60 years after the publication of “The Souls of Black Folk” and how much of that work is still fairly obscure relative to “Souls”
obviously Black Reconstruction is a seminal work and i recommend that people read it. but you should also try his autobiographical works like “Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil” and “Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept”
as well as his late-in-life work like “Color and Democracy”, written as the second world war came to an end, in which dubois frames colonialism and white supremacy as the twin, global enemies of democracy at home and abroad.
i’ll say that Dusk of Dawn has, to my mind, the most succinct description of what racism is, articulated in a socratic dialogue between DuBois and an imagined white interlocutor.
anyway the thing i admire the most about DuBois as a thinker is just how much he continued to learn and grow thoughout his life. and the fun of reading the full body of his work is to see that growth and where it takes him.
