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The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois
5.0

The souls of black folk

Duality of black folk in America: American and negro

Friedman’s bureau, a strange moderate ness, eg let’s not become preoccupied with its failing (paternalism avoiding agency, not getting black folks lands) without seeing its success in a hostile environment — doocracy

It is easier to do I’ll than well in the world, wrt Washington 

Education is to teach people to work, not to be a worker (direct job training) or a liberal arts education (from which only white folks with existing “culture” and “merit” finish to succeed) — we need mentor ship to help former slaves see themselves in the world

Dark description of sharecropping

Spiritual revival of the south, that is “the religiosity of the slave”

Hate, despair, and doubt as the three temptations, and the last the most harmful 

^ he references as the thing that leads black folk to doubt their own race, selves

Chapters 14, 15 are all about the spiritual/slave song as a form of music