Author: Du Bois, W.E.B.Upon its publication in 1903, Du Bois’ classic 'The Souls of Black Folk' made history as a work of sociological thought. Over a century later, Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles brings new energy to Du Bois’ unfinished project, speaking to his melodious text with her own distinctive vibrancies of colour and line. Like Du Bois, the central focus of her practice is to find political power in categories used to undermine particular populations.In it, Du Bois combined history and memoir to advance a vital message of resistance in the dehumanising context of the Jim Crow era. It was in this book that Du Bois, in the essay 'Of Our Spiritual Strivings', wrote of the 'double consciousness' experienced by the Black subject – 'a sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.' Refusing this fate, Du Bois passionately and creatively makes the case for the rights of Black people of the South to be treated with equality and justice.ISBN 9783753300603. Walther König, Köln/Afterall Books. pb. 64 pages. 36 colour ills. 21 x 15 cm.available
