Estranged Americans: Chapter One
The Souls of White Folk
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6 min readNov 1, 2023
My book is out, and I invite you to read the first of 26 essays, The Souls of White Folk. Estranged Americans: Fallacies of Freedom, Citizenship and Racism is available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in paperback and hardcover versions. Thanks to those who have encouraged me to do this.
William F. Spivey
The Souls of White Folk
Silence Equals Complicity
“It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different
from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut
out from their world by a vast veil.” — W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
In 1903, W. E. B. DuBois published a historical work, “The Souls of Black
Folk.” It was a series of essays on the topic of race. These essays
addressed the Black experience and the Black condition. But they said
as much about…
