ABSTRACT

The initial 1920 publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil sold over 15,000 copies. Its initial 1969 reissue, and subsequent reprints, have since garnered even more sales and thousands of citations. Darkwater is now considered a classic. The centenary of the publication (1920–2020) provides an opportune moment to reflect on the book’s significance and disparate interpretations. In this article, I first examine the antecedents of Du Bois’s Darkwater. I then examine the book reviews, announcements, book club declarations, and advertisements and I subsequently map the variations of their coverage, debate, and emphases. I conclude with some thoughts on sociology’s relative dismissal of Darkwater until recent years and what sociology’s modest rediscovery of, and debates over, Du Bois portend.

摘要

1920年，WE Bo Du Bois的《暗水：面纱中的声音》首次发行，售出15,000多册。自1969年首次发行以来，其后再版均获得了更大的销量和数千次引用。暗水现在被认为是经典之作。该出版物的百周年纪念日（1920-2020年）提供了一个机会来反思这本书的重要性和不同的解释。在本文中，我首先研究了杜波依斯《暗水》的前身。然后，我检查书评，公告，读书俱乐部宣言和广告，然后绘制其覆盖范围，辩论和重点的变化图。最后，我对社会学相对否定了Darkwater提出了一些想法 直到最近几年，社会学对杜波依斯的适度重新发现和辩论才预示着什么。