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The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
4 reviews
honeyvoiced's review against another edition
informative
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Rape
Moderate: Colonisation, Classism, and Racial slurs
Minor: Violence
strange's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
The fact that much of what is said here still holds so true today is heartbreaking
Graphic: Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Child death
Moderate: Rape, Murder, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Colonisation
clayby's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.
I'd been wanting to get into W.E.B. Du Bois' works for some time, and when I saw this beautiful "Penguin Vitae" edition of The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk, I knew I just had to have it.
Onto the contents of the book, there's a very nice introduction written by Ibram X. Kendi (author of How to Be an Antiracist, among many other greats), followed by some suggestions for further reading. After this, we finally begin The Souls of Black Folk.
Throughout the book, Du Bois swings back and forth between an almost poetic prose and a more traditional textbook style. Some may find this to be disjointed and/or annoying, but I personally enjoyed it. Books from this era and before tend to lose me off and on, especially denser works, however, I found myself laser-focused on Du Bois' observations and findings.
Comparing all these pages, written over a century ago, to the world as it exists today, we as a society really haven't progressed much.
W.E.B. Du Bois was an incredibly brilliant man, and while he wasn't without his own blind-spots and shortcomings, I would say that The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk is a timeless, invaluable work of sociology, as well as an essential piece of African-American writing.
I hope more and more people read the works of Du Bois and other great Black minds.
Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Slavery
Moderate: Colonisation and Racial slurs
Minor: Violence, Antisemitism, and Classism
suchsweetsorrow89's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
the only thing i really have with this book is that dubois is pretty elitist and sexist in this text and it really shows in certain places. however, he gives a very beautiful and yummy critique on politics, the world, but ultimately the self and the moral problems that black people often go through. it is timeless and tense yet beautiful and moving.
Moderate: Colonisation, Child death, Racial slurs, Classism, and Racism
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