[Hac-announce] Update: February 2023 Book Discussion: "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois

[Manny Sholem Ratafia]

Thanks Kevin. I didn't know the full book is available online. The link 
you sent doesn't work for me. Here is another link to the Oxford 
University Press edition of The Souls of Black Folk with commentary that 
works for me. See you on 2/25. --Manny

https://files.libcom.org/files/DuBois.pdf

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On 2/5/2023 3:27 PM, kvngough--- via Hac-announce wrote:
> Here is a link to the Oxford University Press edition of the book 
> which also contains the essays below as well as an explanatory notes 
> section:
> https://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/ph103/pdf/DuBois_1903TheSoulsOfBlackFolk.pdf
>
> Hope to see you on Feb. 25,
> Kevin (& Paula)
>
>
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> Subject: February 2023 Book Discussion: "The Souls of Black Folk" by 
> W.E.B. DuBois
>
> Our February 2023 book for Black History Month is the African-American 
> classic /The Souls of Black Folk /by sociologist W.E.B. DuBois.The 
> discussion will take place Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 2:30 pm at 
> the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Library, 303 Washington Ave., 
> New Haven. (Note that, due to President's Day, the discussion is the 
> fourth rather than the third Saturday.)
>
> The Souls of Black Folk.jpg
>
> From Wikipedia:
> The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is a seminal work in the history of 
> sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature…To develop 
> [the book], Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African 
> American in American society. [Apart from] its notable relevance in 
> African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an 
> important place in social science as one of the early works in the 
> field of sociology.
>
> In [the book], Du Bois used the term "double consciousness", perhaps 
> taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson…, applying it to the idea that black 
> people must have two fields of vision at all times. They must be 
> conscious of how they view themselves, as well as being conscious of 
> how the world views them.
>
> "Du Bois's most important gift to the black literary tradition is, 
> without question, the concept of the duality of the African-American, 
> expressed metaphorically in his elated metaphors of 
> double-consciousness and the veil.” – Maya Angelou
>
> Here are links to two of DuBois's essays that will also be helpful in 
> the discussion:
> "The Conversation of Races" 
> (1897): http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5685
> "The Talented Tenth" (1903): http://www.webdubois.org/dbTalentedTenth.html
>
> Hope to see you there,
> Kevin (& Paula)
>
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