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"As a black American, I know what it's like to have your history stolen from you," said Gates, the great-great-grandson of slaves and Du Bois Professor of the Humanities.
"I was in Harvard, but not of it," Du Bois reflected in 1960. Excluded from residence, extra-curricular activities and friendships with other white students, his mixed sentiments foretold Harvard's often-ambiguous relationship with what Du Bois would famously term "the problem of the 20th century"--race.
The face of Harvard at the turn of the 21st century looks vastly different from the one that stigmatized Du Bois.
The problem of the 21st century will involvethe debate over who has access to the powergranted by a Harvard education--a question leftunanswered after Du Bois posed it nearly a centuryago.CRIMSONLAURA K. COBBADMISSIONS EXPERT: HEATHER C. CHANG '99,a student coordinator of the UndergraduateMinority Recruitment Program, also wrote herhonors thesis...
These efforts gained a core of 15 Faculty members including Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74, who even gave the Campaign a $50 check.