The souls of black folk
Subtitle: with related readings
Series: The Glencoe literature library; Glencoe literature library
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780078259982
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Readers (Secondary); African Americans; Race relations
Description: "I have sought here to sketch, in vague, uncertain outline, the spiritual world in which ten thousand thousand Americans live and strive. First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath. In a third chapter I have pointed out the slow rise of personal leadership, and criticised candidly the leader who bears the chief burden of his race to-day. Then, in two other chapters I have sketched in swift outline the two worlds within and without the Veil, and thus have come to the central problem of training men for life. Venturing now into deeper detail, I have in two chapters studied the struggles of the massed millions of the black peasantry, and in another have sought to make clear the present relations of the sons of master and man. Leaving, then, the world of the white man, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, --the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls. All this I have ended with a tale twice told but seldom written."--The Forethought
Notes: For use in teaching literature to high school students.
Table of contents: title: On initiation rites and power  -- Ralph Ellison; title: Paul Robeson  -- Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Steal away (traditional hymn) --; title: Booker T. and W.E.B.  -- Dudley Randall; title: Black men and public space  -- Brent Staples; title: Sweet potato pie -- Eugenia Collier.