Character Building (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mitchell, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Booker T. Washington has been regarded as the leading figure in African American life, and as the man who brought his people from slavery to unfettered economic, political, and social involvement in the American mainstream. He has also been strongly criticized for advancing the cause of racial accommodation when the political agenda dictated the development of an independent black standpoint in all areas of the industrial structure. This agenda went far beyond educational reform and agrarian participation.

Character Building first appeared in 1902. While enormous changes have occurred in all phases of African American rights and responsibilities, Booker T. Washington's broad outlines on building moral character have remained intact. Washington's book can be viewed as a Dale Carnegie volume on How to Win Friends and Influence People-black and white-as noted by the very title of the chapters: "Helping Others," "Influencing by Example," "Education that Educates," "The Gospel of Service," etc.

For those in search of the ideological roots of black life in post-slavery times, this text will be a reminder of where the American nation has come from and, arguably, where it is going.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351529358
• Artikelnr.: 49042541

Autorenporträt

Michael Mitchell

Inhaltsangabe

1: Two Sides of Life
2: Helping Others
3: Some of the Rocks Ahead
4: On Influencing by Example
5: The Virtue of Simplicity
6: Have You Done Your Best?
7: Don't Be Discouraged
8: On Getting a Home
9: Calling Things by Their Right Names
10: European Impressions
11: The Value of System in Home Life
12: What Will Pay
13: Education that Educates
14: The Importance of Being Reliable
15: The Highest Education
16: Unimproved Opportunities
17: Keeping Your Word
18: Some Lessons of the Hour
19: The Gospel of Service
20: The Negro Conference
21: What Is to Be Our Future?
22: Some Great Little Things
23: To Would-Be Teachers
24: The Cultivation of Stable Habits
25: What You Ought to Do
26: Individual Responsibility
27: Getting on in the World
28: Each One His Part
29: What Would Father and Mother Say?
30: Object Lessons
31: Substance vs. Shadow
32: Character as Shown in Dress
33: Sing the Old Songs
34: Getting Down to Mother Earth
35: A Penny Saved
36: Growth
37: Last Words