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The Souls of Black Folk (An African American Heritage Book)

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. The importance of his work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be overestimated. "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, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." -David Levering Lewis The Souls of Black Folk propelled Du Bois to the forefront of the Civil Rights movement when it was first published. This hard hitting masterpiece is part essays, part memoir, and part fiction. More than any other book it brought home just how racist and unjust America could be, and demanded that African Americans be granted access to education and equality.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr.

ugh, crazy few days here. started feeling sick on friday and still feel awful now. it's not serious. it's a sinus thing. i can feel it dripping into my throat and it has me so nauseous that i literally haven't been able to keep anything down in days. but, i refuse to go get antibiotics b/c they trigger my IBS. so, i'm just going to suffer and hope the sinus thing gets better on its own. it has before.

and, then, on top of that, the damn hurricane hits on sunday.... we lost power at about 5am on sunday morning and didn't get it back till 2 pm today.

everything in the fridge and freezer had to go.

dog going nuts of course.

just awful.

annnnnnyway, hopefully things will get better from here on out.

what is the exact OPPOSITE of awful is these AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING dresses that judy (googoojue) made for my saucy girls and ever so kindly gifted me for my birthday.

i ADORE them!

i wanted to take pix of them in these dresses AGES ago but the saucies don't travel well so i needed to wait till i was taking pix in the neighborhood!

how awesome are these?!?

Not a particularly good shot, but it is the only one I have of an American Black bear in the lower 48. States. As can be seen from this image, not all Black bears are black. This American Black bear (Ursus americanus), is a silvery brown color. It has several tags in it's ears and a radio collar. One of the tags states "Yosemite National Park", and another has the number "6". Yet another seems to have the number 2046, although it was difficult to read this tag..