The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches

by phil on Friday Jun 13, 2008 5:03 PM

This is an interesting book forwarded by Zack: The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches

Here's the introduction and forward:

Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century.

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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question—unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem?