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—Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.
That hard line has earned Sarkozy the scorn of the French left as well as that of youths in the neighborhoods where the violence erupted. "I will slit his throat or shoot him with a Kalashnikov--no matter how, I'll kill him," says Osman, 14, to nods of approval...
Banlieues like Bobigny, Aulnay-sous-Bois and the original flash point of Clichy-sous-Bois make up a tinderbox that few foreigners see and no one in France wants to talk about. The working-class suburbs of Paris are dominated by sterile high-rise public housing, where Arab immigrants from...
The spark for last week's chaos came on Oct. 27, with the deaths of two teenagers from the jumble of apartment blocks that make up Clichy-sous-Bois. Bouna Traore, 15, of Malian origin, and Zyed Benna, 17, whose parents are Tunisian, thought they were being chased by police...
Even as famed scholars have left, new ones are on the way, there is reason enough to be optimistic about the future of a department that still retains luminaries like Gates, Jamaica Kincaid, and Guyser University Professor William Julius Wilson. In addition to the new faculty appointments, the increased focus...