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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
updated my review and changed rating from 5 stars to 3.5 stars because I read this farrrr more critically (probably b/c I'm reading this 2 years later).
many, many thoughts.... Du Bois was so very classist and colorist that this book is so hard to read at times.
many, many thoughts.... Du Bois was so very classist and colorist that this book is so hard to read at times.
An important book. More than a century old, and yet so accurate on the condition of black folks, even today I suppose. Although it is not easy to read through and through, it is easy to understand his points, ideas, and arguments on certain events that led to the situation of black folks in America today. Surely it makes people want to read and learn more on the subject.
So much of what was written by the great W. E.B. Du Buois is still what is relevant today. This is an outstanding book..........a true classic!
Methodical yet personal and evocative, Du Bois was an amazing writer who shared a lot of specific information on reconstruction and religion's roles in black communities that I was previously unaware of. I learned as much historically as I did sociologically. Tragically, his subjects are still highly relevant... from his work on the post-bellum continuance of wage, political, and emotional slavery of blacks into today's racist and corrupt prison system, the United States (the South in particular) is just slapping new names on slavery. Now it's time for me to finally get to The New Jim Crow.
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Rarely, so rarely, do you come across a book as profound and deeply touching as this one. I don't give out five stars lightly (this may be my first this year, in December) but this book will stay with me for a long time.
Dubois paints a vivid image of the life of black people at the turn of the 20th century, highlighting The Veil that hangs across their world from childhood to death. He presents this in a series of essays and short narratives from his life. Each one is beautiful and haunting on its own; taken together they are brilliant.
With the racial strife currently facing our country, this book should be required reading for everybody. It's so easy for white-middle-class-straight folks to simply write off the "complaints" of minorities as just complaining. "If they only worked harder, like I did..." and such. This book eloquently displays the trouble with that type of thinking.
Dubois paints a vivid image of the life of black people at the turn of the 20th century, highlighting The Veil that hangs across their world from childhood to death. He presents this in a series of essays and short narratives from his life. Each one is beautiful and haunting on its own; taken together they are brilliant.
With the racial strife currently facing our country, this book should be required reading for everybody. It's so easy for white-middle-class-straight folks to simply write off the "complaints" of minorities as just complaining. "If they only worked harder, like I did..." and such. This book eloquently displays the trouble with that type of thinking.
It admittedly lost me a few times (as books from this era and style tend to do), but dang Du Bois was good at writing all the same.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Profound. I learned so much. So glad to have this book on my shelf to come back to again and again.