Banks, William M., Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life, W. W. Norton & Co., 1996.

Banks covers black intellectuals from history, like Du
Bois, but he also examines the broader philosophical
question of the relationship between intellectualism
and the black community today.

Leamann, Nicholas, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991.

This book, broken down by popular northern cities
that blacks moved to from the South, explains how
race relations in America changed between the 1940s
and 1960s, making today's world different from the
one Du Bois knew.

Marable, Manning, W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat, Twayne Publishers, 1986.

This biography offers a serious, yet easy-to-read,
telling of Du Bois's life.

Zamir, Shamoon, Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903, University of Chicago Press, 1995.

This book traces Du Bois's intellectual development...