A Study Guide for W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Song of the Smoke"
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Business Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Business Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Study Guide for W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Song of the Smoke"
Related ebooks
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Dream Variation" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMartin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsW. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGale Researcher Guide for: Pauline Hopkins and the African American Response to Naturalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Arna Bontemps's "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Daughters and Spirit of Harriet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Henry Dumas's "Son of Msippi" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBenjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLand of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Can’t Stand Still: Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDavid Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Kristen Green's The Devil's Half Acre Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEducational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBegin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.: Conversation Starters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDown the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStrangers in the World: Multireligious Reflections on Immigration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRalph Bunche Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne ( Keynote reads ) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behold a Pale Horse: by William Cooper | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Reviews for A Study Guide for W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Song of the Smoke"
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Song of the Smoke" - Gale
1
The Song of the Smoke
W. E. B. Du Bois
1907
Introduction
W. E. B. Du Bois was 39 years old when The Song of the Smoke
was published in the February 1907 issue of Horizon, a magazine which he himself edited. The poem is understood as an affirmation of black pride,
but Du Bois’s ultimate acceptance of the need to call for black pride was the culmination of a difficult process. He was born into a community of free blacks in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, and after his mother’s death, he was given a scholarship by the primarily white town. Although he had deeply desired to go to Harvard, it was the town’s stipulation that this scholarship was to be used at Fisk University, founded for the children of emancipated slaves. While Du Bois had long believed that education and a sense of purpose were all that blacks needed to gain a place as Americans after having been freed from slavery in 1865, his education at Fisk was twofold. Here he could feel what it was to engage with educated minds, with no race considerations to affect the exchange. He also was made acutely aware of the color line
in the South, and realized it would take far more than the higher education of African Americans to overcome this barrier.
In 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. His reputation as a distinguished scholar commenced with the acceptance of his dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade in the United States of America, 1638–1870,
as the inaugural work in the Harvard Historical Studies series. Du Bois soon acknowledged, however, that his subsequent scholarly work in the new field of social science was not having the impact that he expected. Thus he turned to other forms of writing, including poetry, to present his theories and beliefs regarding the problem of the color line,
which he considered the major problem of the twentieth century. He further took responsibility for bringing this message to the public by editing the magazines Moon, Horizon, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) publication Crisis, all of which introduced the work of many new black writers, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
Du Bois was one of the first African Americans to foster the idea of race-consciousness and of the African American as hero. His life’s work focused on the rebuttal of the claim that the