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I read Martin Peretz's article on The Semitic Museum very carefully in The Harvard Crimson of November 29. I also read a response by Leon Levy on December 10 and Professor Frank Moore Cross on December 13 in which they write that Peretz imputed anti-Semitism to Professor Lawrence...
But more than a job is at stake in this surrender to whiteness, more even than what the black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois called the "psychological wage" -- the bonus of whiteness. Racist strategies unify. Savvy politicians always include in the opening salvos of their campaigns a quick clarification of their...
This was brave talk in a society where descendants of slaves had traditionally been admired for their muscles, not their mind. Du Bois' program for broadening education has been well documented, but Lewis demonstrates the extent to which the Old Man fought to make African Americans heirs to their own...
More than any other black leader, Du Bois gave his people a story of their own. To charges that he was an imaginative historian he replied, "There is little danger of long misleading here, for the champions of white folk are legion." Yet for all his insights, he was uneasy...
Did this ironic racism contribute to Du Bois' aloofness and inability to work and play well with others? Did it underlie his conflicting positions on racial inclusion and separatism? The second volume of this impressive study of a divided soul should provide some answers. They are necessary if people of...