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jessmahler 's review for:
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
note: I read a different edition, but the app isn't letting me pick which edition.
du Bois has been criticised for both elitism and sexism, and I can see why. But even for me, who does not forgive those flaws lightly, the work outshines it's failings.
this book is rightly one of the foundational texts of Africans studies, but it should be an equally foundational text in AMERICAN studies. it lays out, beautifully and convincingly, the reality of two Americas, existing side-by-side and the duality of experience of black Americans.
More than once this book moved me to tears, but more it opened my eyes to things I had heard of but never fully understood.
du Bois has been criticised for both elitism and sexism, and I can see why. But even for me, who does not forgive those flaws lightly, the work outshines it's failings.
this book is rightly one of the foundational texts of Africans studies, but it should be an equally foundational text in AMERICAN studies. it lays out, beautifully and convincingly, the reality of two Americas, existing side-by-side and the duality of experience of black Americans.
More than once this book moved me to tears, but more it opened my eyes to things I had heard of but never fully understood.