The Souls of Black Folk
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois (author)
toriasuncle (narrator)
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this...
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The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the first works to deal with sociology.
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Format: audiobook
Publish date: 2007-04-07
Publisher: LibriVox
Minutes: 479
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
African American,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Race
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...
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.
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...
This is a must-read, especially if you live in America.
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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