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Do yourself a favor and read this book. EVERYONE needs to read it to gain a deeper understanding and empathy for the history Black folk in the U.S.

#MustRead #WEBDuBois

Written in 1903 but reads just as easily as if it had been written last year. An important and interesting read on being Black in America.

#weeklyforecast
#nonfictionNovember
Going to start and slowly go through Warmth, not sure I can finish it by end of month - it doesn't feel like something to rush through.

#bookspin ready!

Web Dubois educates the reader of the horrors and injustices of slavery. He writes about experiences of poor black people. As a civil rights leader, he pushed for equality of women and colored people. He evaluates the barriers that prevent abolition and women‘s rights. As a leader in the NAACP, he knows how to use psychology and analytics to lead people to question the racist social norms and create empathy.

...not at Yale or Columbia, is there an air of higher resolve or more unfettered striving: the determination to realize for men, both black and white, the broadest possibilities of life, to seek the better and the best, to spread with their own hands the Gospel of Sacrifice.

The function of the university is...above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing the knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Starting my February strong.

#blackhistorymonth #blackclassics #1903 #blacklitchallenge #diversereads #nonfiction

#day2 #thankfulthoughts “... sometime, somewhere men will judge men by their #souls and not by their skins. Is such a hope justified?”

This is a tricky book to rate and review, because it is not meant to be read for pleasure or entertainment. It is a powerful book and one of many that I need to read to fill the gaps in my education.

“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne”
#blacklivesmatter

My April classic of the month!✨

We did not get to all of this book in my American Multicultural Lit class, but I highly recommend this. The first African American to earn a PhD, he is insightful, intelligent, and ahead of his time.

"For the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent."

-- The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois

#audiobook #morebookslessbullshit2019

"He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face."

• Recently started with #SerialReader app. I'm hopeful that I can learn something new about the perspectives and perseverance of African Americans throughout history. It's not MY story, but it IS my duty as a person and citizen to immerse myself in the experiences and hardships of others from time to time. They have LIVED it; the very least I can do is READ about it •

#NFNovember that will continue into December

#Americanhistory #worldhistory

In this book, W.E.B. Du Bois outlines the lives of African Americans at the turn of the 20th century. His work is powerful, florid, and of the kind that sticks with you.

#24b4monday #blackhistorymonth

Really rewarding and important to read. Yes it‘s clearly dated, but that‘s a hard thing to hold against a 115 year old book, and the amount of it that still rung very true after all that time was illuminating and incredibly depressing. I couldn‘t stop wondering what Dubois would think of where we are now.

It‘s been a slow morning for the #24b4monday #blackhistorymonth readathon, I‘m still hovering around 7/8 hours but I have my current and next reads here and should have a good evening with them! These are both books from my owned tbr which I can read and give away.

I‘m focused atm on not hoarding books, I‘m trying to clear my shelves so the resources that went to making these can be shared with the community and save the planet a little bit

Very excited to read this. I bought it on my last trip to the US and have been criminally slow beginning to read it. Excited to extend my #blackhistorymonth reading a bit more historically.

This remains Du Bois's best know work and the aource of his unforgettable, Hegelian notion of "double consciousness." It brings together a wide range of genres, reversing the trajectory of the freedom narrative by moving deeper South and farther into the past with each chapter.

“What if the Negro people would be wooed from a strife for righteousness, from a love of knowing, to regard dollars as the be-all and end-all of life?”

#holeinyoursoul #abbainaugust. Fun fact: I don't know the ABBA song, however I do have Billy Joel's "All About Soul" on my mind!

@Cinfhen @Mdargusch @Reviewsbylola @Meredith3 @emilyhaldi

I can‘t wait to read these and put this beautiful bookmark to use!
#books #africanamerican #newjimcrow #bookmark #webdubois

I am so glad I read this book!

“O sister, sister, thy first-begotten,

The hands that cling and the feet that follow,

The voice of the child's blood crying yet,

WHO HATH REMEMBERED ME? WHO HATH FORGOTTEN?

Thou hast forgotten, O summer swallow,

But the world shall end when I forget.

SWINBURNE.

The beginning of Ch. 9, Souls of Black Folk. , “Of the Psssing if the First Born”.

My current audio “read”. It‘s interesting how much has changed and yet how little they have.

When gems from a book published in 1903 is just as applicable now as it was then.

I love buying used books that people have written in.

#blackhistorymonth Have you read any of these? I‘ve read all but Toni Morrison‘s Power, which I will be picking up in the next few days. #books #litsy

I‘m listening to this great classic during my commute (it counterbalances our ongoing evening read-aloud of Gone With the Wind), and it‘s totally reframing my mental picture of Reconstruction. What a dire, dangerous time for the country — and how lucky we are to have the benefit of this man‘s solemn and charitable wisdom.

(The otherwise excellent reader loses a point because his voice drops to inaudible at the end of too many sentences.)

It's my #Februarytbr stack! All the books but the bottom one were sitting on my shelves just waiting to be read. So, I am knocking off a good chunk from my "read the books you have" list. I used an audible credit for Born A Crime by Trevor Noah and I started Uncle Tom's Cabin on the app Serial Reader. I can't believe I haven't read it before! #ReadingResolutions #blackhistorymonth @Jess7

Published in 1903 this essay collection is still frighteningly relevant. I was amazed at Du Bois sharp observation and the level of objectivity that he brings to his work... he sounds very often like an outsider looking into the country. While the topic is dire, he was a beautiful writer.

I‘ve got two more books on this “must read” list to finish and this is one of those moments when I‘m glad I decided to make this list and push myself to read these books. This book was really thought provoking. His observations were spot on and I loved his candor. I always have to adjust to the cadence used during this period and once I did I really enjoyed this. It‘s painful to realize how far we haven‘t come...

Who needs light reading in the Christmas season? 😐😂 #book #africanamerican #history

Published in 1903.

When I quote with this information it‘s because I am tired. I am tired of people being fully aware of a corrupt criminal justice system and nothing changing. I am tired of reading books from decades past and seeing that we are still fighting the same fight. I need change. I want change. I need you to want change too.

😳 Did he just?!
Yes. He did.
I call this 1900s shade.
DuBois just shaded the hell out of Booker T. Washington.

I‘m ready for this. It was on my “must read” list for the end of 2017 and the time has come.

#readathon #2017 finished this audio before I fell asleep for 4 hours. Now reading Bind Assassin for homestretch.

Painted in really broad strokes and somewhat dated in its thinking, but very worth reading for the history from an African American point of view of the reconstruction south.

This seminal work of African-American scholarship was first published in 1903 and unfortunately is still relevant. Breathtaking in scope and written in eloquent, dignified and often poetic prose, Dubois examines the history and state of blacks in America from sociological, political, psychological and cultural point of view. He draws a picture of constant struggle, dispair, poverty, lack of education and motivation. A must read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I am going with this quote from my #currentread for #starsandstripes. America is founded on the right to free speech.

I have never felt the need to be patriotic in the US. But the constant assailing of America's core values by the President made me realize how precious those values are and that they need to be protected - by us.

#jubilantjuly

Dubois' writing is incredible, clear, and insightful. Unfortunately, this could have been written today.
Having recently read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I can see why Dubois made a tremendous impression on him.
#currentlyreading #diversebooks

My second #blackhistorymonth read and my pick for a classic written by a person of color for the #readharderchallenge2017

Belated day 8 of #Riotgrams: Black history. This was my first exposure to Du Bois, and it kind of blew my head off.

Happy Black History Month❣The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois(1868-1963) is 114 years old this year. This copy was published in 1961 when it cost 50 cents! #webdubois #classics #vintageblackbooks #vintagebooks #greatbooks #readsoullit #blackhistorymonth

So I haven't used @SerialReader in what feels like forever so I am really glad to finally be in a place where I can dive back in! With less than 36 hours before the new year I don't think I can complete another book. But I can get in a few issues! So here we go!