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Publisher : Transaction Large Print
Publication Date : 1998 05 31
>> Understand double consciousness
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities William Edward Burghardt Du Bois February 23 1868 August 27 1963 was an American 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 twentieth century racism scholarship propaganda integration cultural and economic separatism politics international communism expatriation third world solidarity After graduating from Fisk University in 1888 Du Bois took a bachelor s degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1890 Harvard having refused to recognize the equivalency of his Fisk degree and in 1892 received a stipend to attend the University of Berlin While a student in Berlin he travelled extensively throughout Europe and came of age intellectually while studying with some of the most prominent social scientists in the German capital such as Gustav von Schmoller In 1896 Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph D from Harvard University After teaching at Wilberforce University in Ohio and the University of Pennsylvania he established the department of sociology at Atlanta University now Clark Atlanta University
The Souls of Black Folk is the most well known work of African American W E B Du Bois a writer leader and civil rights activist The book published in 1903 contains several essays on race some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African American in American society Outside of its notable place in African American history The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the first works to deal with sociology In Living Black History p 96 esteemed scholar and Du Bois biographer Manning Marable makes the following observation about the book Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position It helped to create the intellectual argument for the black freedom struggle in the twentieth century Souls justified the pursuit of higher education for Negroes and thus contributed to the rise of the black middle class By describing a global color line Du Bois anticipated pan Africanism and colonial revolutions in the Third World Moreover this stunning critique of how race is lived through the normal aspects of daily life is central to what would become known as whiteness studies a century later
For Du Bois the problem of 20th century is problem of color line Concept of double consciousness is looking thru eyes of others Notion of authenticity what does it mean to be authentic His idea is very Freudian Du Bois says authenticity is a longing for Blacks but impossible because blacks can t be authentic have to live another way Cornell West says Du Bois is a pragmatist He is connected to the Harlem Renaissance Paul Gilroy says Du Bois is more connected with Pan Africanism experience of displaced Africans around the world What does he mean souls of Black folk It is a metaphor for spirituality Book is meant to provide progress for black folks Freedman s bureau had some success like schools He had issue with B T Washington populist message of wanting blacks to concentrate on jobs not the vote higher education or civil rights Du Bois resents Booker T Washington as spokesperson for blacks Critiques American materialism Standard of human culture and lofty ideals of life the talented tenth Book is pioneering for 6 reasons 1 Identification of hyphenated self 2 Recognition of Black culture like music the Blues vernacular culture The soul of the nation itself West says musically is key to text it sings the sorrow song is motif of life 3 Important to Harlem renaissance period 4 Pioneering work of sociology and psychology 5 Higher education is means to self realization 6 Relations to economics drives development of black life
Double consciousness His double consciousness gives us a vivid picture of how tragic the racist discourse is defined by skin color Black or white thus it strengthens arguments that each race had unique properties thus polarizing us His book gives us this understanding of our mind and self identity If Blacks accept the racial divide they then deny equality He does see a black identity and celebrates difference made real in Black experience Celebrates difference made real in peoples experience and beyond our racial fictions How does he do this what is the key It is music the sorrows song Those voicings these songs speak to slow tragedy He precedes each chapter with sorrow song The doubleness of consciousness is extended throughout the work They convey resistance and defiance Last chapter how prejudice works on people Whiteness is non race The great chain of being your place in society Rise of Enlightenment human is now sovereign leads to systematic study of man
Du Bois was investigated by the FBI who claimed in May of 1942 that his writing indicates him to be a socialist and that he has been called a Communist and at the same time criticized by the Communist Party Du Bois visited Communist China during the Great Leap Forward Also in the 16 March 1953 issue of The National Guardian Du Bois wrote Joseph Stalin was a great man few other men of the 20th century approach his stature Du Bois was chairman of the Peace Information Center at the start of the Korean War He was among the signers of the Stockholm Peace Pledge which opposed the use of nuclear weapons In 1950 he ran for the U S Senate on the American Labor Party ticket in New York and received 4 of the vote He was indicted in the United States under the Foreign Agents Registration Act and acquitted for lack of evidence W E B Du Bois became disillusioned with both black capitalism and racism in the United States In 1959 Du Bois received the Lenin Peace Prize In 1961 at the age of 93 he joined the Communist Party USA
Du Bois was invited to Ghana in 1961 by President Kwame Nkrumah to direct the Encyclopedia Africana a government production and a long held dream of his When in 1963 he was refused a new U S passport he and his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois became citizens of Ghana making them dual citizens of Ghana and the United States Du Bois health had declined in 1962 and on August 27 1963 he died in Accra Ghana at the age of ninety five one day before Martin Luther King Jr s I Have a Dream speech
Recommended reading for anyone interested in history psychology or philosophy
>> Understand double consciousness
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities William Edward Burghardt Du Bois February 23 1868 August 27 1963 was an American 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 twentieth century racism scholarship propaganda integration cultural and economic separatism politics international communism expatriation third world solidarity After graduating from Fisk University in 1888 Du Bois took a bachelor s degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1890 Harvard having refused to recognize the equivalency of his Fisk degree and in 1892 received a stipend to attend the University of Berlin While a student in Berlin he travelled extensively throughout Europe and came of age intellectually while studying with some of the most prominent social scientists in the German capital such as Gustav von Schmoller In 1896 Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph D from Harvard University After teaching at Wilberforce University in Ohio and the University of Pennsylvania he established the department of sociology at Atlanta University now Clark Atlanta University
The Souls of Black Folk is the most well known work of African American W E B Du Bois a writer leader and civil rights activist The book published in 1903 contains several essays on race some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African American in American society Outside of its notable place in African American history The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the first works to deal with sociology In Living Black History p 96 esteemed scholar and Du Bois biographer Manning Marable makes the following observation about the book Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position It helped to create the intellectual argument for the black freedom struggle in the twentieth century Souls justified the pursuit of higher education for Negroes and thus contributed to the rise of the black middle class By describing a global color line Du Bois anticipated pan Africanism and colonial revolutions in the Third World Moreover this stunning critique of how race is lived through the normal aspects of daily life is central to what would become known as whiteness studies a century later
For Du Bois the problem of 20th century is problem of color line Concept of double consciousness is looking thru eyes of others Notion of authenticity what does it mean to be authentic His idea is very Freudian Du Bois says authenticity is a longing for Blacks but impossible because blacks can t be authentic have to live another way Cornell West says Du Bois is a pragmatist He is connected to the Harlem Renaissance Paul Gilroy says Du Bois is more connected with Pan Africanism experience of displaced Africans around the world What does he mean souls of Black folk It is a metaphor for spirituality Book is meant to provide progress for black folks Freedman s bureau had some success like schools He had issue with B T Washington populist message of wanting blacks to concentrate on jobs not the vote higher education or civil rights Du Bois resents Booker T Washington as spokesperson for blacks Critiques American materialism Standard of human culture and lofty ideals of life the talented tenth Book is pioneering for 6 reasons 1 Identification of hyphenated self 2 Recognition of Black culture like music the Blues vernacular culture The soul of the nation itself West says musically is key to text it sings the sorrow song is motif of life 3 Important to Harlem renaissance period 4 Pioneering work of sociology and psychology 5 Higher education is means to self realization 6 Relations to economics drives development of black life
Double consciousness His double consciousness gives us a vivid picture of how tragic the racist discourse is defined by skin color Black or white thus it strengthens arguments that each race had unique properties thus polarizing us His book gives us this understanding of our mind and self identity If Blacks accept the racial divide they then deny equality He does see a black identity and celebrates difference made real in Black experience Celebrates difference made real in peoples experience and beyond our racial fictions How does he do this what is the key It is music the sorrows song Those voicings these songs speak to slow tragedy He precedes each chapter with sorrow song The doubleness of consciousness is extended throughout the work They convey resistance and defiance Last chapter how prejudice works on people Whiteness is non race The great chain of being your place in society Rise of Enlightenment human is now sovereign leads to systematic study of man
Du Bois was investigated by the FBI who claimed in May of 1942 that his writing indicates him to be a socialist and that he has been called a Communist and at the same time criticized by the Communist Party Du Bois visited Communist China during the Great Leap Forward Also in the 16 March 1953 issue of The National Guardian Du Bois wrote Joseph Stalin was a great man few other men of the 20th century approach his stature Du Bois was chairman of the Peace Information Center at the start of the Korean War He was among the signers of the Stockholm Peace Pledge which opposed the use of nuclear weapons In 1950 he ran for the U S Senate on the American Labor Party ticket in New York and received 4 of the vote He was indicted in the United States under the Foreign Agents Registration Act and acquitted for lack of evidence W E B Du Bois became disillusioned with both black capitalism and racism in the United States In 1959 Du Bois received the Lenin Peace Prize In 1961 at the age of 93 he joined the Communist Party USA
Du Bois was invited to Ghana in 1961 by President Kwame Nkrumah to direct the Encyclopedia Africana a government production and a long held dream of his When in 1963 he was refused a new U S passport he and his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois became citizens of Ghana making them dual citizens of Ghana and the United States Du Bois health had declined in 1962 and on August 27 1963 he died in Accra Ghana at the age of ninety five one day before Martin Luther King Jr s I Have a Dream speech
Recommended reading for anyone interested in history psychology or philosophy
>> Above Average
Took the entire period of shipping to get to me but the book was in good condition
