The Mis-Education of the Negro

April 10, 2010 | By In Article |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Lemas Mitchell on April 10th, 2010

    This books is quite overrated, though it has been in print for a long time.

    The author neglected to put any citations of anything in the book, so far as I have read. Nor did he stick on some specific topic and go about addressing that, as opposed to writing in terms of sweeping generalities. Not helpful.

    I KNOW that this will be fodder for Black Studies Departments across the country and it is going to be yet another one of the things that makes the problems in black education WORSE.

    If this book were acceptable as authenticated information about what really DID happen in black education up to the time of publishing, it would be a guide to explain what is happening to this very day.

    As it is, I can’t see it as much more the prototype to some of the foolishness that infects the discourse on black education today.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. Charlie Atan on April 10th, 2010

    on some things he says, but the book was pretty wack. i imagined the guy writing it after twelve cups of coffee. it has no beauty to it and i don’t think it’s very helpful to anybody in modern times, but obviously many people disagree. i didn’t learn anything from it, but i’m glad some people do… sum people need to read this stuff in a book in order to conceive it. its basically just common sense he’s saying. after reading this i became incredulous that Lauryn Hill was inspired by this overrated book. the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a far superior piece of work to the Miseducation of the Negro. on a positive note tho this book convinced me that even i could write a popular bestselling book. so kudos to the author for the effort
    Rating: 3 / 5

  3. Bookdude on April 10th, 2010

    I can’t understand why a book as important and seminal as Carter G. Woodson’s is still being put out with a cover design that looks like something a baby did. Don’t black Americans have better respect for their own thinkers?

    Then, again, reading the comments of one of the previous reviewers, that it seems like Dr. Woodson wrote this “on 12 cups of coffee” and that it was “wack,” I think that a lot of young black people still don’t get it.
    Rating: 3 / 5

  4. Anonymous on April 10th, 2010

    This book, written by an African American, was the first one to show that we Africans have a different soul than whites so that white education isn’t fit for us and most of us can’t cope with it. That the book was written in 1933 should make it a shame that Black-haters like David Horowitz spend all their energy abolishing Black studies and positive discrimination (in his racist, anti-Black books (Hating Whitey ; The Race card, etc.) Now there are many other books by African authors, some quite deep such as P. C. Luthuli’s The Philosophical foundations of Black education in South Africa. And even some book by some friendly whites who accept to understand the problem and the need for a separate, all-black education system, I mean Jacqueline Irvine’s Black Students and School Failure. A good recent African and practical book is Wilson’s Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children. Let’s praise people like Woodson, he showed the way for freeing us from the slavery of our minds and souls. Read this book and you will understand that slavery is not only physical, legal, but also a question of imposing us white education, thought, from which we also need liberation.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  5. book lover on April 10th, 2010

    No matter who you are or think you are this should be required reading for All Americans. I can see why it was banned. If you subscribe to the American Myth that race relations are better, then this book is NOT for you. It is as timely now , even more so as when it was written. You will not walk away from these pages the way you walked to them.
    Rating: 5 / 5

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