For 10 points, name this author of The Souls of Black Folk.
This man criticized people he called "car-window sociologists" who tried to understand a community without leaving the train. He argued that poor whites were "compensated in part by a sort of public and psychological wage" as part of his explanation for the failure of a proletarian democracy in the post-Civil War South. This man claimed those in his condition were not able to experience true self-consciousness but "measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt or pity." The last chapter of one of his books discusses the (*) "sorrow-songs" excerpted at the beginning of the rest of the book's chapters. This author of Black Reconstruction and The Philadelphia Negro said in the introduction to an essay collection that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." For 10 points, name this author of The Souls of Black Folk.
This man criticized people he called "car-window sociologists" who tried to understand a community without leaving the train.
William Edward Burghardt DuBois