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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
A fantastic historical social commentary, written in the early years of the 20th Century, and looking back to the days of slavery and forward to the changes that American society needed to make to render Emancipation meaningful. Powerful, insightful, dramatic: DuBois captures perfectly the racial struggles that America would face in the ensuing sixty years, and the causes and cures.
Found it very enlightening as it seems that really nothing has changed except maybe the tactics used.
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I did not expect this book to hit me as hard as it did, but the first Black man to get his PhD from Harvard really knows how to mix the educational/informative writing with the kind that will tug at every single heartstring available to you. My favorite essay was “Of the Coming of John,” though all were incredible.
"The present generation of Southerners are not responsible for the past and they should not be blindly hated or blamed for it" -W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks, ch. 3 Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
...and that was over 100 years ago from a key organizer of NAACP during the start of the Jim Crow era.
This book was a series of long essays of up to 25 pages each, covering a wide range of topics, from historical (Post-Civil War freedman) to economical (specifically rural agricultural and cotton industry), social, educational, contemplative and even personal (death of son). Du Bois speaks intelligently on a variety of matters.
What Du Bois realizes, which still seems to be ignored to this day, is that there is not one single cause of the various conditions of his race today. Nor is there one magic button, or lever, or law (moral or political) that is going to rectify the situation. It is silly to think otherwise.
While many of the situations have changed (especially with respect to Jim Crows Laws, desegregation, Civil Rights, voting and education). This is a good read for those who have forgotten their history... written by someone who lived it, who was much closer to the past than those of us today.
...and that was over 100 years ago from a key organizer of NAACP during the start of the Jim Crow era.
This book was a series of long essays of up to 25 pages each, covering a wide range of topics, from historical (Post-Civil War freedman) to economical (specifically rural agricultural and cotton industry), social, educational, contemplative and even personal (death of son). Du Bois speaks intelligently on a variety of matters.
What Du Bois realizes, which still seems to be ignored to this day, is that there is not one single cause of the various conditions of his race today. Nor is there one magic button, or lever, or law (moral or political) that is going to rectify the situation. It is silly to think otherwise.
While many of the situations have changed (especially with respect to Jim Crows Laws, desegregation, Civil Rights, voting and education). This is a good read for those who have forgotten their history... written by someone who lived it, who was much closer to the past than those of us today.
Moving, heartbreaking, empowering story about the struggles Black Folk struggled with during and since slavery. Should be required reading in every high school, but it does get very intense.
Published in 1903, this book stands as an important piece of history and literature. But, unfortunately, it still resonates with the present and describes the difficulties faced by black Americans today. DuBois is a tremendous writer and his prose springs from these pages and sings to the reader. I was given this audiobook through the Audiobooksync program that pairs contemporary teen audiobook fiction with related works (sometimes classics, sometimes nonfiction, sometimes other related fiction). I forget now what this was paired with, but I'm glad to have downloaded this one.
The audio version of this book read by Rodney Gardiner carries the cadence of black ministers through the text and makes listening to this book a powerful experience. Highly recommended in audio format.
The audio version of this book read by Rodney Gardiner carries the cadence of black ministers through the text and makes listening to this book a powerful experience. Highly recommended in audio format.
I appreciate his critique of Booker T. Washington's views as laid out in Up From Slavery.
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