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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
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A snapshot of the black culture in the early 1900s. While I don't agree with everything that was mentioned in this book, I believe it was a necessary read. It is a bit depressing how while a lot has changed for black people, a lot is still the same, and still bear similar scars from the past. It is a good perspective to have to even begin to understand how to improve our world to heal the scars that slavery left on them as people.
Dubois also has a very poetic and enjoyable way of describing factual situations, as well as giving a good snapshot of the lives of black people in the US with short stories.
Dubois also has a very poetic and enjoyable way of describing factual situations, as well as giving a good snapshot of the lives of black people in the US with short stories.
this book provides perspective
I think I understand and appreciate the significance of this book in the context of African American history as Du Bois was an important figure in the African American culture as well as American culture period. However I feel like I just had a hard time getting into the book. Perhaps it is because this book was a series of essays written over years later compiled into one book. Or it might be because I’m simply not familiar enough with Du Bois. I think one thing that this book did, was provide me the perspective of African Americans in during the Jim Crow era.
I think I understand and appreciate the significance of this book in the context of African American history as Du Bois was an important figure in the African American culture as well as American culture period. However I feel like I just had a hard time getting into the book. Perhaps it is because this book was a series of essays written over years later compiled into one book. Or it might be because I’m simply not familiar enough with Du Bois. I think one thing that this book did, was provide me the perspective of African Americans in during the Jim Crow era.
4 because of the place and role in history this book has/has played.
A super important book.
A super important book.
informative
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Rape, Slavery
Moderate: Racial slurs, Colonisation, Classism
Minor: Violence
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I've been listening to this book, courtesy of Librivox.org, for a while now. Not because it was boring or a bad book. Mainly because it's very in-depth and serious. To me, this is the kind of book that is almost impossible to read in one sitting.
As an aside, the reader for this particular book was extremely good. He provided music and was a great, steady reader. http://librivox.org/souls-of-black-folks-by-web-du-bois/
This is a book containing several essays on being an African American among a white society. Published in 1903, it contains 14 essays ranging from initial slavery and Booker T. Washington to the songs of sorrow that are popular among the African American population. Some of the especially poignant essays are about young black men trying to make more of themselves, only to be pushed aside and treated very poorly by white people. Of The Coming of John and Of Alexander Cummell were two of the best essays, in my opinion.
All in all, this was an excellent book that gives insight into how the African Americans dealt with the lives they were given.
Also available on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm
As an aside, the reader for this particular book was extremely good. He provided music and was a great, steady reader. http://librivox.org/souls-of-black-folks-by-web-du-bois/
This is a book containing several essays on being an African American among a white society. Published in 1903, it contains 14 essays ranging from initial slavery and Booker T. Washington to the songs of sorrow that are popular among the African American population. Some of the especially poignant essays are about young black men trying to make more of themselves, only to be pushed aside and treated very poorly by white people. Of The Coming of John and Of Alexander Cummell were two of the best essays, in my opinion.
All in all, this was an excellent book that gives insight into how the African Americans dealt with the lives they were given.
Also available on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm
read it for hist 202 and really enjoyed it. even though dubois was a sociologist i feel the writing was something most people could enjoy, and i really liked how much it went into the reality of the 19th/20th centuries
challenging
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