The souls of black folk summary

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Sociology

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E. B Du Bois had hopes that the fierce actions that were being done to the blacks could be judged against the discriminative whites by their souls rather than their race. W. E. B Du Bois in his book The Soul of Black Folk addressed all the experiences of the blacks as illustrated below. This follows the leadership of Booker T. Washington which was questionable as far as his leadership roles (Du Bois, and Robert, 122). His leadership resulted to sorrow and uneasiness on the currency which justified continuous domineering situations and squalled probable confrontation by the black masses to the entire regime. Concerning Black Lives Matter, Pan-Africanism had become increasingly concerned to Black Nationalism whereby the course of Black American lives was put into several exceptions but Du Bois made it clear in the Soul of Black Folks that blacks should not reject the whites despite the discrimination (Du Bois, and Robert, 122).

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However, Booker T. This is because the technical training of the jobs will not help in fulfilling their souls' needs. Du Bois does not forget that his birth and growth take place in a relatively tolerant community. He later enrolls in the university at Nashville, thereby experiencing the Jim Crow South racism for the first time. His only son by the name Burghardt dies after he is refused some medical treatment because of his skin color. Again, after that death, he is filled with perverse happiness since he knows Burghardt cannot again be hurt by racism because he is beyond the veil. This is because instead of the media doing what they think is good; they are guided by the treatments and perceptions of the white people who rule over them.

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