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A 6 page overview of W.E.B. Du Bois' masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk. The writer offers brief descriptions of the various chapters and relates their themes to the book as a whole. No additional sources cited.
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can be divided into three section, which deal with the "history, sociology and the spirituality of Afro-America" (Rampersad xi). While the entire book can be considered as refutation of the
social position of Booker T. Washington and his admirers, the chapters in section one make up the vanguard of this attack (Rampersad xi). Each of these chapters reinforces the
points made in the others. The second and largest section of the book offers six chapters in which Du Bois takes his white readers "behind the veil" and offers them
a detailed look at black culture. In these chapters, Du Bois intent is to expose the heart-rending plight of black communities, their poverty and ignorance, while simultaneously highlighting their potential
for improvement (Rampersad xii). These chapters both defend the need for black education and also the cause of liberal education for African Americans. The last section of The Souls of
Black Folk presents the "power of black art and spirituality" (Rampersad xii). As this suggests, this is a powerful book that paints a moving and persuasive portrait of a people
who deserved so much more than they were getting at the hands of white-controlled, mainstream society. Section 1 The first chapter, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," mixes black history with
psychology and performs the function of an extended prologue for the work. In these opening chapters, it is Du Bois stated intention to "Emancipation meant" to the black slaves that
it released from bondage (Du Bois 3). He describes how blacks are still searching for a means to be "both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit
upon" (Du Bois 9). The second chapter, which is entitled "Of the Dawn of Freedom," documents the history of black existence after slavery from the perspective of the rise
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