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The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Mis-Education of the Negro

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Black American StudiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1680920685
ISBN13: 9781680920680
Publisher: 12th Media Services
Published: Dec 31 1999
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes blacks 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:

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