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The Souls of Black Folk - Community Reviews back

by W.E.B. Du Bois, Brent Hayes Edwards
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Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it 7 years ago
This book looks at everything, things I've never thought about when it comes to around the time of the end of slavery of blacks in the US. It talks about all the issues. Just because it was illegal, didn't mean everything fell into a good place for anyone involved. It talks about black/white prob...
bobsburgers23
bobsburgers23 rated it 10 years ago
Wow, what a book. If you haven't read it, you should. It should be an essential American text. Du Bois' way with words is staggering and he deals fairly with the past and takes a long hard look at the world around him. He seemed like a very good man, in all senses of the word.
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it 13 years ago
Larsen describes him as "peppery," and I like that. He's civil, but he's quietly laying haymakers. It's an important book. To a depressing extent, when we talk about racial injustice these days, we're still repeating DuBois.It is nonfiction - essays on the challenges Blacks face in the wake of the C...
wallerdc
wallerdc rated it 15 years ago
This is a must-read, especially if you live in America.
globulon
globulon rated it 16 years ago
I read an excerpt from this in a class and have wanted to come back to it since then. The book is somewhat different than I expected it to be. I thought it would be more of a philosophico-poetic treatise on the nature of being black in America. It actually is a series of linked essays. These ran...
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