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Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. said yesterday he will step down as chair of the African and African American Studies Department in 2006 after holding the position for 15 years.
He said he plans to continue teaching and will remain the director of the Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute—which awards fellowships to promote scholarship in African and African American studies.
A principal reason Dawson came to Harvard was to work with Bobo, with whom he has collaborated on several academic projects related to contemporary African-American political behavior. The two are also co-editors of the Du Bois Review, a journal dedicated to social science research on race.
But one burning question remained. What did Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., the distinguished scholar who chairs the Department of African and African American Studies and goes by the nickname “Skip,” have to say about all this?
Drawing a parallel to the ideological split between followers of turn-of-the-century thinkers Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois that reached its apogee during the Civil Rights Movement, Carter said that blacks today face new challenges as socioeconomic, gender, and religious “schisms?...