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gsanta1 's review for:
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
It’s good.
I didn’t give it full marks just because it has a little of everything. Unfortunately, when you have everything, there are some parts that are less engaging to me than others.
A little history.
A little social observations.
A little social commentary.
A little anecdotes.
A little poetic story telling.
A little Allegory.
It’s certainly open my mind to the past, the present and the future.
Ps.
I just thought about how interesting the levels of passions running through the different parts.
The historical “section” is oddly dispassionate. He often gives objective, rational arguments for some of the racism and discrimination. Then discusses the plight of the freedman and the where the prejudice may have originated from.
Sometimes it’s strange, He’ll offer some rationalizations like “of course the black man is lazy, we gave him freedom but taught him the meaningless of his actions”.
And initially you go “Du Bois is so right”
But then you think, “wait a minute, you mean ‘all black men’, Du Bois?”
You go further down a couple of chapter and you can really feel Du Bois passion in the anecdotes and stories he tells.
This book has a wide range.
I didn’t give it full marks just because it has a little of everything. Unfortunately, when you have everything, there are some parts that are less engaging to me than others.
A little history.
A little social observations.
A little social commentary.
A little anecdotes.
A little poetic story telling.
A little Allegory.
It’s certainly open my mind to the past, the present and the future.
Ps.
I just thought about how interesting the levels of passions running through the different parts.
The historical “section” is oddly dispassionate. He often gives objective, rational arguments for some of the racism and discrimination. Then discusses the plight of the freedman and the where the prejudice may have originated from.
Sometimes it’s strange, He’ll offer some rationalizations like “of course the black man is lazy, we gave him freedom but taught him the meaningless of his actions”.
And initially you go “Du Bois is so right”
But then you think, “wait a minute, you mean ‘all black men’, Du Bois?”
You go further down a couple of chapter and you can really feel Du Bois passion in the anecdotes and stories he tells.
This book has a wide range.