17 November 2005
if ("readings" != syllabus) { ?>if ("readings" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("readings" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("readings" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("readings" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Du Bois, ''The Souls of Black Folk'' (selections) (1903)
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When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude is largely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces. But when to earth and brute is added an environment of men and ideas, then the attitude of the imprisoned group may take three main forms,—a feeling of revolt and revenge; an attempt to adjust all thought and action to the will of the greater group; or, finally, a determined effort at self-realization and self-development despite environing opinion.Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
To make here in human education that ever necessary combination of the permanent and the contingent—of the ideal and the practical in workable equilibrium—has been there, as it ever must be in every age and place, a matter of infinite experiment and frequent mistakes.Of the Training of Black Men Continue reading...
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