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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
1. The way my brain processes words on a page made it quite difficult to read, as there's no indentations at the start of new paragraphs, let alone a separating page between chapters. I found myself reading the same line multiple times because of the lack of separation between lines/paragraphs, mentally exhausting me.
2. I've had this book for years, but never opened it until recently. I was very excited to read it. However, I think with all of the political things going on in the US right now, I'm fairly fatigued with hearing/reading about Black culture, regardless of what I've lived through or what my ancestors lived through... While Black culture has a lot to offer and can be exciting, it also has a very sad, dark history, and again, with everything politically (and culturally) in the US, along with dealing with my own very difficult situations, I just need a book that's less daunting and depressing right now... something that can serve as a distraction from what I'm currently dealing with.
I do plan to pick back up where I left off very soon, but in the meantime, I have put the book back on my shelf.
2. I've had this book for years, but never opened it until recently. I was very excited to read it. However, I think with all of the political things going on in the US right now, I'm fairly fatigued with hearing/reading about Black culture, regardless of what I've lived through or what my ancestors lived through... While Black culture has a lot to offer and can be exciting, it also has a very sad, dark history, and again, with everything politically (and culturally) in the US, along with dealing with my own very difficult situations, I just need a book that's less daunting and depressing right now... something that can serve as a distraction from what I'm currently dealing with.
I do plan to pick back up where I left off very soon, but in the meantime, I have put the book back on my shelf.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Cultural appropriation
Moderate: Sexual assault
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The Souls of Black Folk is a profound and groundbreaking work that remains a cornerstone of African American literature and sociology. Published in 1903, this collection of essays delves into the complexities of African American identity, the struggle against racial oppression, and the quest for equality in a deeply divided society.
The essays are rich with historical context, personal anecdotes, and sociological insights. Du Bois’s writing is lyrical and evocative, combining personal narrative with a call to action. He critiques the social and political systems that perpetuate racism and advocates for higher education and civil rights as essential tools for African American advancement.
The essays are rich with historical context, personal anecdotes, and sociological insights. Du Bois’s writing is lyrical and evocative, combining personal narrative with a call to action. He critiques the social and political systems that perpetuate racism and advocates for higher education and civil rights as essential tools for African American advancement.
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"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?" (122)
"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?" (122)
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57. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (Collection of Essays-E Book- Non Fiction) 5* In this collection of essays the author tells the complications which arose from the emancipation of millions of slaves. Published in 1903, only a few decades after the civil war the author writes with a great deal of eloquence and lends the sociologist view on the true history of the blight of the Black American. I found it a exceptionally well written work and highly recommend.