The souls of black folk

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• afarrell · Mar 27, 2016 · Recommends

  …Natalie McMaster. Sometimes I'm doing something where I'm spending a bunch of time waiting on the machine and I will listen to a history audiobook. Recommendations: - Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman - Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois - to answer the Question DuBois raises at the end: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond - 1776 by David McCulloch - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow - not history, but if you've…

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• afarrell · Sep 30, 2019 · Recommends

  …Barbera Tuchman. Also, there are some books whose authors wrote with a musicality that they are far better on audio than on paper. Included in this category are: - Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein - Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois

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• monadic2 · Aug 20, 2020 · Recommends

  …is just completely ignorant of the past 150-200 years of analysis of race and racism. I recommend these books if you have any serious inclination of discussing race: * "Black Reconstruction" and "the souls of black folk", by WEB du Bois. * "Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern" by J. Sakai * Toni Morrison's "the origin of others" directly addresses your attitude towards racism—after…

• wheels · Jul 18, 2010 · Recommends

  Tangentially related, The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois, the first black American to have gotten a PhD. from Harvard, is not only a great window into the struggles of black Americans in the generation after the Civil War, but also some of…

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• johan_larson · Dec 9, 2018 · Mentions

  That's rather an ambitious title, isn't it? W.E.B. Dubois might be the most respected African-American intellectual, and "The Souls of Black Folk" might be his finest work. Yang is setting the bar rather high for himself.

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• shliachtx · Dec 9, 2018 · Mentions

  GP is not commenting on the ability of an Asian-American to write or think on par with W.E.B. DuBois, but that the presented body of work is not necessarily a parallel to The Souls of Black Folk. As other commenters have mentioned, this book does not exclusively discuss the role of Asian-Americans in American culture and society, apparently being relegated to a few essays. For a book which proclaims…

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• notdrunkatall · Mar 21, 2013 · Mentions

  The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Dubois.

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• afarrell · May 29, 2014 · Mentions

  …had white privilege. I had some trouble accepting this, as identifying as white felt a bit like a betrayal of my mother and grandfather. So, I started reading a bunch of books like How to be Black, The Souls of Black Folk, and How the Irish became White[3]. I learned some pretty interesting things[4] and accepted that in almost[5] all contexts I am white. if someone (like a friend of mine from Canarsie) says I'm Black,…

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• Kaibeezy · Sep 20, 2023 · Mentions

  …Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels "The Interpretation of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois "The Analects" by Confucius "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare"…

• elzbardico · May 27, 2026 · Mentions

  …would go by something like: "The industrial society and its future" - Theodor Kaczinski. "The communist manifesto" - Karl Marx. "Rules for Radicals" - Saul Alinsky "Hitler's War" - David Irving "The Souls of Black Folk" - W.E.B. Du Bois "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" - Tom Pickety "Las venas abiertas da America Latina" - Eduardo Galeano "The question of Palestine" - Edward Said. "Grapes of Wrath" - John Steinbeck.…

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• rpdillon · Jul 21, 2026 · Mentions

  I was reading The Souls of Black Folk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk) written in 1903, so about 38 years after the end of the Civil War. And the opening essays talk about the incredible climb that freed slaves had…

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