Artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ influential 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk, providing historical and cultural contexts for his thoughts on the racial terror, sorrows, and hopes of the post-Reconstruction era. It vividly conveys the book’s continuing legacy, effectively updating it for the age of Black Lives Matter.
Artist Paul Peart-Smith offers the first graphic adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ influential 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk, providing historical and cultural contexts for his thoughts on the racial terror, sorrows, and hopes of the post-Reconstruction era. It vividly conveys the book’s continuing legacy, effectively updating it for the age of Black Lives Matter.
PAUL PEART-SMITH, an artist of Afro-Caribbean and British background, has been working in the comics industry since the early 1990s, when he worked on Judge Dredd. Co-curator of the comics exhibition Black Power, he now lives in Tasmania. PAUL BUHLE has been a key creative force in the development of comics for more than fifty years, publishing one of the first alternative comics, as well as editing graphic novels on subjects ranging from the Wobblies to Che Guevara. He is the coeditor of Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press). HERB BOYD is a veteran journalist of African American life and culture, working frequently with artists. JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY is the twenty-first president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway I Of Our Spiritual Strivings II Of the Dawn of Freedom III Of Booker T. Washington IV Of the Meaning of Progress V Of the Training of Black Folk VI Of the Passing of the First-Born VII Of Alexander Crummell VIII Of the Coming of John IX Of the Sorrow Songs Afterword Acknowledgments Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway I Of Our Spiritual Strivings II Of the Dawn of Freedom III Of Booker T. Washington IV Of the Meaning of Progress V Of the Training of Black Folk VI Of the Passing of the First-Born VII Of Alexander Crummell VIII Of the Coming of John IX Of the Sorrow Songs Afterword Acknowledgments Further Reading Notes on Contributors
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