The Souls of White Folk

Du Bois names whiteness itself as a modern invention — 'the discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing' — and argues the First World War was the predictable eruption of the same white imperial supremacy that carved up Africa and Asia. Followed by 'The Riddle of the Sphinx,' a long verse indictment of empire's 'white world's vermin and filth.'

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