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During 12 nights of violence last autumn in the banlieues of France, rioters trashed cars, schools, shops and much else. Sibaty Siby, 62, says it happened because hope had already been trashed there long ago. President of the Franco-African Association in Clichy-sous-Bois, the poor, high-rise community...
Siby came to France to work in 1968 and never left. He began as a Paris street sweeper, and ended up at a butcher shop. Since it went bankrupt seven years ago, he's become a kind of elder sage in Clichy-sous-Bois. He says there are many reasons...
The riots gave France a stark look at the cleft between its institutions and the poor, alienated people tucked away in its exurban housing projects. The worst of the dilapidated high-rises in Clichy-sous-Bois are slated for destruction later this year. There and elsewhere in the banlieues, there...
The recent grand opening of the Du Bois Institute’s new location marked a milestone in the development of Harvard’s incipient African and African American Studies (AAAS) program. For many, the new office space also reflects new optimism for the program’s future...
With Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. at AAAS’s helm and West out of the picture, the fledgling program’s potential is more apparent. However, the prevailing belief that African American Studies must constitute the...