ENGL 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Discrimination, The Talented Tenth, W. E. B. Du Bois
23 Nov 2017
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Race classification in the united states, and the sociological approach of the souls of. African american peoples as chattel non-human property changes: at the same time, the distorted conception of a paternal responsibility towards slaves maintained by the land-owning/slave-holding population also ends, leaving. Americans and poor white americans: where laboring white americans, particularly those considered less white like the irish, Italians, polish, were never considered kin to the rich class of mostly english descended. Washington, unlike dubois, advocating for what was basically assimilation the abandonment of striving for black political power, attention to trade schools rather than to higher education. Class discussion the main claim that he makes that has been recreated by other activists is double. 1 it is impossible to be black and american since american is anti-black. They"re both being screwed with lack of access to education, etc: voting: he thinks only educated people should be able to vote (talking about whites and blacks, ch.
