Du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk, Library of America, 1986, pp. 3-191.

Ferris, William H., "The Souls of Black Folk: The Book in Its Era," in Critical Essays on W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by William L. Andrews, G. K. Hall & Co., 1985, pp. 125-27.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Introduction to The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, Bantam, 1989, pp. xiv-xvii.

Rampersad, Arnold, The Art and Imagination ofW. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard University Press, 1976, pp. 72-88.

Review in New York Times, April 25, 1903.