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The perception of Blacks as a "problematic people" is the source of Black rage in today's society, Cornel West '74 said yesterday in the second installment of this year's W.E.B. Du Bois lecture program.
He then presented the next part of his lectureas a "conversation" with Black authors JamesBaldwin, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois and ToniMorrison, using readings from their works toillustrate the sources of identity loss.
West answered his own question with a referenceto Du Bois, saying that one's first perception ofself often comes through other's eyes.
Yesterday's lecture was the first in a seriesof three. The Du Bois lectures were established in1981 with a grant from the Ford Foundation
West--who was introduced as "perhaps the preeminent Black intellectual of our era" by Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr.--is the director of Princeton's Afro-American Studies Department. He addressed a crowd of approximately 250 in Emerson Hall.