Like other African American life-writers, Du Bois shapes the story of his growing manhood around his attainment of education. The first four chapters relate personal data about the author. That is, Du Bois subordinates his personal chronicle to the collective sociopolitical goal of exposing America's history of racism.Ĭomprising nine chapters, the work may be divided into three sections.
As Du Bois cautions in his preface, Dusk of Dawn is “the autobiography of a concept of race”, and not “mere autobiography”.
A generic mix of autobiography and sociological commentary, Dusk of Dawn seeks to reclaim the social and historical identities of early twentieth-century African Americans rather than to narrate and create the life of a singular self.
Du Bois that are considered autobiographical. Published in 1940, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is the second of four works by W.
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