- ISBN13: 9780451531476
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Historically acknowledged as one of America’s most powerful orators, Washington challenged racial prejudice when such behavior from a black man was unheard of. Here is the dramatic, autobiographical account of how he stood fast against the social and ideological bias prevalent in his day.
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Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington’s Up from Slavery is one of the greatest … More >>
The original. He was kind of cool, but now he ain’t; people using his backwardness against us. Forget this dude, or perish. 1896 speech was a total sell out to da man.
Drop ya boots, dawg!!!
It
Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book as a part of a class. In this class we discussed Washington’s work as written from the ‘trickster’ perspective. In this light it was quite interesting to see how he points out hypocrasies indirectly, while apparently stating the opposite. Thus, creating a self-aware hypocrasy within the text itself. I’m not sure that I am yet convinced, however. The work often seems a little bit on the acquiescent side to me.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book was the most boring book I have ever read. There was no point to the whole book, because all he talked about was his accomplishments and things that other people wrote about him. This book has no suspenseful or interesting parts in it. I feel that no one could ever like this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is hard to get into at first because Washington, in my opinion, isn’t the greatest writer. He writes using many run-on sentences and MANY, MANY commas with phrases that can distract you from the meaning of the sentence (as a rule, notwithstanding, to such an extent, this is to say etc…) he seems to state his observations as if it is a fact. He tells how there were such great relations between blacks & whites throughout the south and blacks held ABSOLUTELY NO resentment towards their slaveowners. I found that hard to believe (how would he know when he was just a slave?) Many of his “facts” didn’t seem to agree with history and what I thought slavery and black/white relations were like. He almost seemed ignorant to what was probably happening around him. He goes on to tell about his life and spends at least 1/2 of the book talking about his school in Tuskegee…after a while it gets boring and you want to hear some interesting stories about HIM! I didn’t think the book was too great or very informative at all.
Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book, here in Ceará, a state of Brazil.Even being an agronomist, I love to read books.This book is 100% available for free reading, on internet.This book was writen about 100 years ago, by an african-american , Booker T. Washington.
Born in a slum, having as his mother, a black slave, as a child, Booker T. Washington became free.His father was a white man, and never recognized or create him.In fact, Booker T. Washington had a bitter childhood.Having a childhood cored in poverty, racism, prejudices, ignorance and hard labor; instead of becaming a neurotic, Booker T. Washington became a leader and teaching example for african-americans of his times.In fact many lessons of this book continuos to be usefull for every time, race or place.
If you go to all my reviews that I writen before, just one autobiography that I gave five stars was, “World of Yesterday” by Stephan Zweig.To be sincere in an autobiography is very, very rare.One problem of this autobiography, is again his lack of sincerity.The author was writing about 100 years ago, and perhaps he couldn’t tells us, what he was really thinking.
To example, Booker T. never claims that segregation, racism/eugenics is/were by definition, bad.In fact, there’s many good claims to some knowed eugenicists/racists at that times.The bitter author’s childhood (a nightmare childhood), has very little space in this book.In fact, the sucess of Booker T. in education affairs has, big space in this book.Too much space, I think.If we were in 1906, I’ll be giving five stars to this book.Being unsincere and having by today standards, some absurds, this book isn’t useless, but we aren’t in 1906.
Rating: 3 / 5