The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Publisher Description
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. Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1915, Woodson has been cited as the father of black history. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week"; it was the precursor of Black History Month.
Customer Reviews
The Mis-Education of the Negro is mislabeled
First, for some reason this classic book has been categorized as fiction. It most certainly is not fiction. The content of the book is excellent. However, the narrator is not named and sounds like a white man is reading it in an affected voice to try to sound like an African American. It is quite vexing.
Not Narrated by Carter G Woodson
It surely doesn’t sound like Carter G Woodson to me
Voice
The voice lacked inflection and was overall robotic. Found it very hard to listen to.