The Problem of the Color Line

From The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois's prophetic declaration that race would define the modern era, framing the entire book.
Forethought
The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.
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Chapter 2: Of the Dawn of Freedom

Repeated as the chapter's opening thesis, extending the color line globally to relations of 'darker to lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.'

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