The Other Americans by Felice Laverne5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the contemporary South amongst an affluent and storied African American clan, The Other Americans is a timely and powerful family saga about the abuse suffered at the hands of the privileged and their ambitions. In it, I explore those “other Americans” that mainstream culture seldom talks about-those affluential, old-money black families of the South who’ve been vacationing next to the whites in Nantucket for generations and who, according to DuBois, quietly hold the society of power and weight of the African American race on their shoulders. ![]() DuBois, is the very foundation and lifeblood of this novel, The Other Americans. This notion of the Talented Tenth, first coined by Dr. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races…we may build bread winning, skill of hand and quickness of brain, with never a fear lest the child and man mistake the means of living for the object of life…” “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. ![]()
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