In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significance.

W. E. B. DuBois

1: The Plot; 2: A New England Boy and Reconstruction; 3: Education in the Last Decades of the Nineteenth Century; 4: Science and Empire; 5: The Concept of Race; 6: The White World; 7: The Colored World Within; 8: Chapter 8 Propaganda and World War; 9: Revolution