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The Education of Black People
W.E.B. Dubois
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JFSL3; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. Du Bois knew that the liberation of African Americans required liberal education and not vocational training. He saw education as a process of teaching certain timeless values: moderation, an avoidance of luxury, a concern for courtesy, a capacity to endure, a nurturing love for beauty. At the same time, Du Bois saw education as fundamentally subversive. This was as much a function of the well-established role of education-from Plato forward-as the realities of the social order under which he lived. He insistently calls ... Read more
Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. Du Bois knew that the liberation of African Americans required liberal education and not vocational training. He saw education as a process of teaching certain timeless values: moderation, an avoidance of luxury, a concern for courtesy, a capacity to endure, a nurturing love for beauty. At the same time, Du Bois saw education as fundamentally subversive. This was as much a function of the well-established role of education-from Plato forward-as the realities of the social order under which he lived. He insistently calls ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781583670439
SKU
V9781583670439
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