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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives, Africana, and African American National Biography. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (www.oxfordaasc.com).

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The World and Africa and Color and Democracy are two of W E. B. Du Bois's most powerful essays on race. He explores how to tell the story of those left out of recorded history, the evils of colonialism worldwide, and Africa's and African's contributions to, and neglect from, world history.

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• Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign

• Introduction

• Foreword

• The World and Africa

• I. The Collapse of Europe

• II. The White Masters of the World

• III. The Rape of Africa

• IV. The Peopling of Africa

• V. Egypt

• VI. The Land of the Burnt Faces

• VII. Atlantis

• VIII. Central Africa and the March of the Bantu

• IX. Asia in Africa

• X. The Black Sudan

• XI. Andromeda

• The Message

• Writings on Africa, 1955-1961

• Ghana and Pan-Africanism

• The Future of Africa

• China and Africa

• The Belgian Congo

• Nigeria

• American Negroes and Africa's Rise to Freedom

• Index

• Color and Democracy

• Contents

• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology

• Selected Bibliography