Darkwater by Du Bois deals with the place of African American in the modern world. Not a dry contribution to the sociology of the black people problem, but a human document of extraordinary intensity and insight, describing the awakened conscience and aspirations of black Americans everywhere, how it feels to be a black man in a white world, and how the solution is to be found, not in considering race or color as separate from the problems of work and wage, domestic service, government, sex, and education, but as part and parcel of them and having no reality without them. Even more than the late Booker Washington, Mr. Du Bois was the chief spokesman of the two hundred million men and women of African blood.