The Mis-Education of the Negro - Softcover

Woodson, Carter Godwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440463506 ISBN 13: 9781440463501

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African-Americans of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught: History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This edition of Carter G. Woodson's classic, "The Mis-Education of the Negro," is newly and professionally laid out (as opposed to a facsimile edition).

About the Author:

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950), the author of more than 16 books and the founder and editor of the Journal of Negro History and the Negro History Bulletin, was the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1440463506
• ISBN 13: 9781440463501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106