![]() ![]() With Dark Princess, Du Bois explores the color line from a fantastical angle while inserting his signature sociological style. Du Bois's allegorical tale follows Mathew Townes from his political disillusionment to his association with a powerful and seductive revolutionary leader, Kautilya, the princess of the Tibetan Kingdom of Bwodpur. ![]() The Dark Princess is a story of magical love and radical politics, a romance facing obstacles in a white-dominated world. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. ![]() Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community.
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