Book
The mis-education of the Negro
Publication Information
[New York?] : Tribeca Books, [2011]
Physical Description
140 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson follows the thesis that African-Americans of Woodson's 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. Woodson 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."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Associated Publishers, 1933.
Contents
- The seat of the trouble
- How we missed the mark
- How we drifted away from the truth
- Education under outside control
- The failure to learn to make a living
- The educated Negro leaves the masses
- Dissension and weakness
- Professional educated discouraged
- Political education neglected
- The loss of vision
- The need for service rather than leadership
- Hirelings in the places of public servants
- Understand the Negro
- The new program
- Vocational guidance
- The new type of professional man required
- Higher strivings in the service of the country
- The study of the Negro
- Appendix.