Black history month extended 60 days, at least, reading through Mary Shelley and seeing my first Dick Powell film …
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Affecting Song and W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Souls of Black Folk”
Each chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk” begins with an excerpt of verse and a few bars of music, begging the question why this song?
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- 2021-03-31
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Read, Viewed: Black History Month 2021
What I read and viewed during February, the month we devote in the land of freedom to Black History, in our feeble attempts to make reparations for centuries of slavery
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- 2021-02-26
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
“Up From Slavery”: Booker T. Washington’s words
Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery” promotes a vocational training for blacks imbued with Christian virtue. Is W.E.B. Du Bois’ critique of it justified?
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- 2021-02-18
- Reading Journal On Literature, Books
Coming to Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery”
The circumstances of my purchase and knowledge of “Up From Slavery,” Booker T. Washington’s most famous autobiography
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- 2021-02-10
- Reading Journal On Literature, Books