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The Conservation Of Races

Auhtor: W B Du Bois

Language: english
Published: 1897

Genres:

essays,  african american studies
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Review by M. Erb, August 2006


Rating: (****)
Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S.
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Summary of the Book 'The Conservation Of Races':

Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11 1896 - March 27 1977) was an American-born author playwright composer and activist for African-American and other causes as well as spouse of noted African-American thinker writer and activist W. E. B. Du Bois.

Excerpts from the Book 'The Conservation Of Races':


... upward struggles to establish the justness of his claim to the highest physical, intellectual and moral possibilities. The Academy will, therefore, ...
... Negro has always felt an intense personal interest in discussions as to the origins and destinies of races: primarily because back of most discussions ...
... of the Scandinavian to the rich, dark brown of the Zulu, passing by the creamy Slav, the yellow Chinese, the light brown Sicilian and the brown Egyptian. ...
... dark races have straight hair nor does color agree with the breadth of the head, for the yellow Tartar has a broader head than the German nor, again, ...
... human progress. We, who have been reared and trained under the individualistic philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the laisser- faire philosophy ...
... distinctly differentiated races, in the sense in which History tells us the word must be used. They are, the Slavs of eastern Europe, the Teutons of ...
... and Spaniard are comprehended. The term Negro is, perhaps, the most indefinite of all, combining the Mulattoes and Zamboes of America and the Egyptians, ...
... of the group i.e., there was a slight and slow breaking down of physical barriers. This, however, was accompanied by an increase of the spiritual ...
... which shall help to guide the world nearer and nearer that perfection of human life for which we all long, that one far off Divine event.. This ...
... fashioned by black heads and hallowed by the travail of 200,000,000 black hearts beating in one glad song of jubilee. For this reason, the advance ...
... by the white Americans. That if in America it is to be proven for the first time in the modern world that not only Negroes are capable of evolving ...
... rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride. Is this right. Is it rational. Is it good policy. ...
... America its only American music, its only American fairy tales, its only touch of pathos and humor amid its mad money-getting plutocracy. As such, it ...
... it is absolutely imperative for negative defense. Let us not deceive ourselves at our situation in this country. Weighted with a heritage of moral iniquity ...
... training, of high minds, and high motives, who are unknown to their fellows, who exert far too little influence. These the Negro Academy should strive ...
... to do, and that a little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving would do us more credit and benefit than a thousand ...
... WILL BE HEARD. The Academy should seek to gather about it the talented, unselfish men, the pure and noble-minded women, to fight an army of devils that ...
... of the present friction between the races–commonly called the Negro Problem-lies in the correction of the immorality, crime and laziness among ...
... of race. We believe that only earnest efforts on the part of the white people of this country will bring much needed reform in these matters. 7. ...
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