X-The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

Note on Citations

{ xvii } Note on Citations B Where possible or appropriate the citations given herein to texts by W. E. B. Du Bois will be to the thirty-seven volumes of The Complete Published Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, published by the KrausThomson Org. Ltd., edited and introduced by the late Herbert Aptheker, from  to , as well as to the six volumes of Du Bois’s texts published by the University of Massachusetts Press, also edited and introduced by Aptheker, three of selected correspondence and three of selections of other texts, including previously unpublished texts and documents, from  to . Specific bibliographical details for the texts cited from among these volumes can be found in the list of references at the end of this study. With three texts, however, further detail is necessary. With Dusk of Dawn, originally published in  but cited herein from its  reprint as a volume in The Complete Published Writings, where appropriate and as an aid to the reader, I have usually indicated within my text the chapter, or subsection thereof, that is under discussion, for pagination varies somewhat among the most commonly accessible editions of this text (Du Bois c). This edition is cited in the text as Dusk followed by page number. John Brown, originally published in , was reissued by Du Bois in  on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, with a new preface and textual additions, and reprinted in The Complete Published Writings. The reader may find it useful to note that whereas I make reference in Chapter , both directly and by interpretive implication, to the last two chapters of the biography, none refer to the  additions and thus my references can be usefully indexed from any complete extant edition of the study (Du Bois ). This edition is cited in the text as John Brown followed by page number. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, however, is cited herein from the first edition of its original publication (Du Bois f); the second edition, which NOT E ON C I TAT IONS xviii has no major changes from the first, is available online in a scholastically reliable electronic form (Du Bois e). It is cited in my text from the first edition as Souls followed by page number, chapter, and paragraph number. In addition, three early essays by Du Bois—“The Conservation of Races” of , “Strivings of the Negro People” from later in , and “The Study of the Negro Problems” of early —while occasionally cited according to their original publication (details for which may be found in the bibliography [Du Bois a; Du Bois b; Du Bois b]), they are more generally cited from the reedited, complete (as originally published or as extant but unpublished among the papers of W. E. B. Du Bois), and annotated versions of these texts included in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, forthcoming from Fordham University Press (Du Bois Forthcoming[a]). These three essays are cited in my text as follows: “The Conservation of Races” as CR, “Strivings of the Negro People” as SNP, and “The Study of the Negro Problems” as TSNP, respectively, followed by pagination and paragraph number (for example, CR , paras. –) from this forthcoming edition of early essays by Du Bois. Finally, as indicated in the endnotes, throughout this study I occasionally take reference to material that may be found only (as original documents or in microfilm form derived therefrom) among the Papers of W. E. B. Du Bois, Special Collections and University Archives, Series , Subseries C, MS , University of Massachusetts Libraries, housed in the W. E. B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Currently maintained by the staff of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives of the University of Massachusetts Libraries, the original papers were compiled and edited by Herbert Aptheker, whereas the microfilm edition was supervised by Robert C. McDonnell. ...