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        <title><![CDATA[How can the Souls of Black Folk be utilized as a study for modern society?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How can the Souls of Black Folk be utilized as a study for modern society?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:08:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The negro problem, as it was called, was the issue of what the place of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The negro problem, as it was called, was the issue of what the place of African Americans in society should be.  They were no longer slaves, but the vast majority of white people did not consider them to be equal.  So what place was there for them between slaves and equals?  As James Baldwin once said:

At the root of the American Negro problem is  the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with  the Negro...

I'm...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:17:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the negro problem? Why does Du Bois say he can't or won't answer...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the negro problem? Why does Du Bois say he can't or won't answer when he is asked about the problem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:09:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[
On pg47 Dubois discusses the burden of freedmen as the responsibility...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[
On pg47 Dubois discusses the burden of freedmen as the responsibility of Negros, how does he think the burden should be shifted to the rest of the US]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:41:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the opening pages of the book, DuBois suggests that in analyzing the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the opening pages of the book, DuBois suggests that in analyzing the problem of the 20th century, one analyzes "the color line."  Naturally, he is able to draw a historical and spiritual direction to this analysis.  However, he personalizes this in a couple of ways.  I would submit that the first way he does this is in his proposition:  "What does it feel like to be seen as a problem?"  Within this lies the understanding that being...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:08:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In tracing the development of Black consciousness in America, DuBois...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/souls-black/q-and-a/slave-went-free-stood-for-brief-moment-sun-then-93829</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In tracing the development of Black consciousness in America, DuBois focuses on the period of slavery, which helped to create the stigma or problem of "color," the Civil War with Abolitionists and Lincoln, and the challenges of Reconstruction.  With the ending of the Civil War, the North's victory, and the official end to the institution of slavery in the South, the "slave went free."  Slavery was over and there was a feeling of freedom...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:02:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do each of the following three parts mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do each of the following three parts mean?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:35:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You can find a brief overview here.  Also, previously questions have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can find a brief overview here.  Also, previously questions have been asked and answered about the summaries for Chapter Three and Chapter Five.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:04:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Finding a summary for this great work is a challenge.  I actually think...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Finding a summary for this great work is a challenge.  I actually think that the time spent trying to find a summary of it can be the same length of time as reading it entirely.  I think there are some ways to approach it, though.  Initially, it should be noted that this is probably one of the most influential works in American literature and history.  I am not sure there is a day that passes in America and daily news where some aspect of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:06:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does someone have summaries etc. for "The Souls of Black Folk"? I work...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Does someone have summaries etc. for "The Souls of Black Folk"? I work and don't have time to read the book &amp; cannot afford to pay for the enotes.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:10:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The correct spellling of the terminology is the Talented Ten, not...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The correct spellling of the terminology is the Talented Ten, not tenth...it is based on the professional accomplishments of African Americans, Americansand Indian Americans whodeveloped this country and their descendants. It was introduced by George Washington Carver, Sr.'sfamily, whose parents had 10 children and was determined to make them all professional people. Each was instructed to choose an area of expertise, i.e., Teacher, Priest,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:47:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This really overlaps because racism in action, so to speak, simply means...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This really overlaps because racism in action, so to speak, simply means denying someone their basic rights because they have a different skin color. In particular though you seem to allude to the distinction between universal human rights and civil rights. In the United States, African Americans were "technically" equal to whites after the Civil War. The Jim Crow Laws passed in the postbellum period and that the Civil Rights movement in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:59:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Souls of Black Folk is an out cry for human rights opposed to racism...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Souls of Black Folk is an out cry for human rights opposed to racism and color problems?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:34:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just to place it in a historical perspective, the Civil War ended in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just to place it in a historical perspective, the Civil War ended in 1865, the Fisk Jubilee singers were founded or rose to prominence in 1871, and W.E.B. Du Bois enrolled at Fisk University in 1885 on a scholarship after having graduated as valedictorian in his high school class.
Many of the Jubilee singers were former slaves. Today, the choir has mostly commercial appeal and stands as a symbol of black history in particular and American...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:48:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[can you summarize chapter one?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[can you summarize chapter one?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:50:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[W.E.B. Duboius attended Fisk University in Tennesee. In what way did the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[W.E.B. Duboius attended Fisk University in Tennesee. In what way did the Fisk Jubilee Singers have a far-reaching affect on the world?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:12:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Analyze how the black struggle for freedom?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Analyze how the black struggle for freedom?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:53:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Souls of Black Folks is a collage of essays that chronicles the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/souls-black/q-and-a/what-was-risky-about-using-excerpts-from-negro-77361</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Souls of Black Folks is a collage of essays that chronicles the living conditions of African-American in post-bellum America to the turn of the century. Du Bois is meticulous in his approach because he provides us with glimpses into many aspects of black life, or the "color line" as he terms it. In "The Coming of John" he probes into what it means to black, all other things being equal; in "The Passing of the First-Born" he shows that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:30:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good question! Du Bois is a firm believer in one part of Western...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Good question! Du Bois is a firm believer in one part of Western civilization, namely higher education. In particular a humanist education within the realm of the academy. This is reflected in his essay "The Talented Tenth" in which he argues for a college educated class of African Americans (the talented ten percent) to lead the black majority.
Racism, he finds, can best be countered at the abstract level through theoretical debate....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:47:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Du Bois engage Western Civilization? Does he find it valuable...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/souls-black/q-and-a/how-does-du-bois-engage-western-civilization-does-78003</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How does Du Bois engage Western Civilization? Does he find it valuable in challenging racism or problematic in legitimizing it?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:36:38 PST</pubDate>
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