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The Negro
This is the classic history of the African peoples in Africa and the New World, a repudiation of the absurd belief, widely held in the post-Civil War period, that Africans had no civilization but the one foisted upon them by their slavetrading captors. Writing for a popular audience in 1915, DuBois, one of America's greatest writers, lays out in easy-to-read, nonacademic p...more
Paperback, 156 pages
Published
October 15th 2007
by Cosimo Classics
(first published February 15th 2000)
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I began this book because I've been a lot of Civil War history and CW fiction and hope to gain insight into those who were held in slavery. I got this classic 1912 history of the black race free on Kindle and was, frankly, expecting a dry read. I was pleasantly surprised and enlightened as I explored W.E.B. DuBois's account of his people's talents, religions and ever-expanding presence across Africa and, ultimately, around the world. Like a cheerleader, he praises as he informs and I get the fee...more
Give it a read even if you don't think this is up your alley. (And if you aren't exactly Team DuBois, don't fret. He only devotes about two sentences to bashing Booker T. Washington.) He admits from the start that a lack of access to records means some of his facts may be wrong and that pretty much excuses some of the mistakes throughout. Otherwise it is a really interesting and comprehensive overview of the history of the African people.
Emphasis on REALLY interesting. Especially if this is you...more
Emphasis on REALLY interesting. Especially if this is you...more
Critical Review of The Negro by W.E.B. Dubois
The book I have chosen for review is The Negro, written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. The book was originally published in 1915 by the Henry Holt and Company press out of New York, but the edition I read was a 2001 unabridged reprint of the first edition from Dover Publications Inc. This 2001 edition contains a new introductory note not included in the first. Aside from that, the edition is an exact republication of the original.
The Negro wa...more
Feb 26, 2013
Eddy Allen
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.
David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twent...more
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David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twent...more
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