Precalculus

by Robert Blitzer

The problem of "the color line," W.E.B. Du Bois's ever-present polemical theme, is at the core of this novel of sensual love, radical politics, and the quest for racial justice. Originally published by Harcourt Brace and Co. in 1928, Dark Princess was one of two novels written by Du Bois. Toward the end of his life he ranked it as his favorite of all his works.

For the fantastical storyline, heavy with propagandist overtones, Du Bois depicts 1920s America as a racist nation primed for radical protest and terrorism. Matthew Townes, the protagonist, is a medical student expelled because his race bars him from the required course in obstetrics in a white hospital. Self-exiled in Berlin after his political idealism is corrupted, Townes falls in love with Princess Kautilya, daughter of a maharajah, and joins the international team she heads in which people of color unite against white imperialism. Du Bois recounts their quest for liberation in a whites-only world that overwhelms their passionate love and separates them. Du Bois concludes the novel with the birth of their son--proclaimed as the Maharajah of Bwodpur and "Messenger and Messiah to all the Darker Worlds."

The reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune found "amidst much pure romance and preciosity of style there are rich deposits of straight sociology [as well as] interesting and revealing reading [for] the white reader who has yet few ways of looking into the many closed chambers of Negro life or of seeing into the dilemmas of the intellectual Negro mind and heart."

Genres: Mathematics, Textbooks, Science, Nonfiction, School

1087 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[☆ serethiel ☆]

I'm done with high school math... FOREVER! *cheers*

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[Chris Plambeck · Rating 1 out of 5]

Error-ridden, as was the testing software from Pearson. Multiple problems in the test. Every test, including the Final Exam, had grading errors.

[Chicken Little · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome textbook! I love math and this booknis as good as it gets. Easy explanations, great example and plenty of review exercises. I worked through ALL of the problems in the book and I am now rereading the entire book again. I just love Precal!

[Greg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Blitzer does a pretty good job of producing a good textbook and web instruction site.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Explains most of the material clearly. However, there are A LOT of mistakes in the solutions manual.

[Emily Krueger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although I absolutely hate math, and ended with a B both semesters, this textbook was pretty top-notch. #allhailjared

[Juan Monterrozas · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the few textbooks i have actually read thoroughly and enjoyed; it has been foundational to my understanding