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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
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Very powerful, and very convincing. Certainly the most convincing piece of black rhetoric from the time that I know of, and it was apparently quite effective as well.
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Although this book was written in 1903, it feels like it was taken from today's headlines. He challenged Booker T. Washington's idea of educating African Americans as skilled laborers. Du Bois made a case for more extensive education to be needed to instruct the "talented tenth."
Du Bois wrote in an elevated style. Being a Harvard professor this doesn't come as a surprise. He may also want to counter racist notions concerning the intelligence of African Americans. His eloquent prose caused me to get bogged down in this text and that is the reason for the three star rating.
Du Bois wrote in an elevated style. Being a Harvard professor this doesn't come as a surprise. He may also want to counter racist notions concerning the intelligence of African Americans. His eloquent prose caused me to get bogged down in this text and that is the reason for the three star rating.
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So powerful and relevant. Somehow it was very different than I thought it would be. More interesting --sometimes touching on a controversial historic figure (eg Booker T Washington), sometimes drilling down into land ownership (or not) and other details of the economics of Black families trying to get by in one Georgia county. He doesn't balk at exposing how the formerly enslaved experienced a myriad of injustices right from the first few decades after the Civil War when there was so much hope for change.
There's a chapter late in the book on a loss in his family --so sad. He was clearly deeply grieving.
I can't do it all justice. READ IT for yourself.
PS And it's fairly short.
There's a chapter late in the book on a loss in his family --so sad. He was clearly deeply grieving.
I can't do it all justice. READ IT for yourself.
PS And it's fairly short.
“How does it feel to be a problem?”
“Being a problem is a strange experience,-peculiar even for one who has never been anything else”
“Where all that makes life worth living-Liberty, Justice, and Right-is marked “For White People Only.””
W.E.B. Du Bois was a great sociologist. No wonder I, myself, have a degree in the same. The knowledge of knowing that as far ahead as this world has come in technology and science, it has barely moved much in treating people right. Begging for the mere morsels of happiness is sickening to my stomach. The fact that Black people’s lives have been held in such a Vice grip to withhold from them any semblance of humanity just because “why not”. But not only to hold it back but to then turn around and say look how far behind you are? To then be educated and open your eyes to why being oblivious is not in your best interest, for not only white people to tear into you for knowing too much but the ignorant people who look like you and are content I’m not knowing to shun you.
We’re still living in and with the past, today.
The veil is a real fabric that Black people wear. Black people walk in two different worlds constantly. I dare you to look in the mirror
“Being a problem is a strange experience,-peculiar even for one who has never been anything else”
“Where all that makes life worth living-Liberty, Justice, and Right-is marked “For White People Only.””
W.E.B. Du Bois was a great sociologist. No wonder I, myself, have a degree in the same. The knowledge of knowing that as far ahead as this world has come in technology and science, it has barely moved much in treating people right. Begging for the mere morsels of happiness is sickening to my stomach. The fact that Black people’s lives have been held in such a Vice grip to withhold from them any semblance of humanity just because “why not”. But not only to hold it back but to then turn around and say look how far behind you are? To then be educated and open your eyes to why being oblivious is not in your best interest, for not only white people to tear into you for knowing too much but the ignorant people who look like you and are content I’m not knowing to shun you.
We’re still living in and with the past, today.
The veil is a real fabric that Black people wear. Black people walk in two different worlds constantly. I dare you to look in the mirror
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