The Souls of Black Folks
A study of the transition of African Americans from slavery to freedom at the turn of the 20th century. This book examines the role of government, economics and the current African American leadership in the developement of the African American from the time of emancipation through the beginning...
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A study of the transition of African Americans from slavery to freedom at the turn of the 20th century. This book examines the role of government, economics and the current African American leadership in the developement of the African American from the time of emancipation through the beginning of the twentieth century. This is an unabridged reading of the classic book which was originally published in 1903.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780970886002 (0970886004)
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing Corporation
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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