https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/readbook/TheNegroinOurHistory_10101622#21

All that's a century-old description of the black race as a whole and our contribution to civilization. The way this thing's so progressive for its time shows how racism's not biologically rooted any more than a result of social conditioning.

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That goes especiallly for all the yeye people on here who’ve been conditioned to think the white man’s their superior. Either know your own history or shut up.

I go post another one now.

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Have you read Dubois' 'The Negro'? It's a little book. Very readable. Also very outdated. But still, I'll count it as one of the best summaries of black history I have ever read.

RedboneSmith:
Have you read Dubois' 'The Negro'? It's a little book. Very readable. Also very outdated. But still, I'll count it as one of the best summaries of black history I have ever read.

I haven’t but I’ll have a look around for it.

What do you mean by outdated? Not that I don’t know what you’re hitting it. I just weren’t sure if you meant in the way it uses racial language (throwing around nigger as was the norm for that time) or something a little deeper.

KingSango:


All Negroes are forbidden to enter NL thereby I ban you!

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Love Sango

You’re forbidden to enter any of my threads.

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Probz:


I haven’t but I’ll have a look around for it.

What do you mean by outdated? Not that I don’t know what you’re hitting it. I just weren’t sure if you meant in the way it uses racial language (throwing around nigger as was the norm for that time) or something a little deeper.

No, it is not about any racist language. I don't even remember seeing the word nigger even once in it.

What I meant is the book was written around 1912, when much wasn't really known in the outside world about Africa's history, due to shortage of archaeological and other kinds of research into African history. Consequently, some of the information in the book is now known to be incorrect.

For example, the book says the Negro race originated in Asia and moved into Africa. That was the current belief at the time, now known not to be true. Also its chronology of Ancient Egyptian history is a bit out of whack.