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Glenshaw also served as executive director of the development team for Encarta Africana, a Microsoft CD-ROM on the African diaspora...
...Glenshaw also served as executive director of the development team for Encarta Africana, a Microsoft CD-ROM on the African diaspora...
Just when you think it's time to hunker down and read a few of Encarta Africana's 3,361 articles, you'll stumble across a series of video lectures that highlight the work's major themes. Music producer Quincy Jones and comedian Whoopi Goldberg discuss race and music; the volume's co-editors, Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, explain the struggle begun in 1909 by black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to publish an encyclopedia that would chronicle black history...
Groundbreaking as Encarta Africana may be, it falls short on two key points, starting with its price. Though Microsoft will donate copies to 8,000 schools, the rest of the nation's schools and families will be charged $70 ($50 with a rebate). Second, Encarta Africana is available only for the PC. Microsoft explains that "only" 40% of schools use Apple computers, but that's a poor excuse. A reference work this useful and exciting should be available to everyone--even those renegade Mac users...
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