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And if "Skip" Gates comes to Harvard that will be his job. After last year's death of Nathan I. Higgins, DuBois professor of history and Afro-American Studies, the department was left with only one senior faculty member, Cabot Professor of English Literature Werner Sollars.
Perhaps one of the biggest draws Gates sees in Harvard is the presence of the DuBois Institute. Gates has been offered the program's directorship, as well as the promise of increased funding.
"He is the premier scholar in his field," says the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, acting director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute and Plummer professor of Christian morals. "If his name is attached to [the Afro-Am Department], what has been a sad state for 20 years will be turned...
In answering this question, the play takes off in all sorts of comic directions. There are phone calls to the playwright himself incorporating a tape recorded voice that sounds pretty much like Woody Allen, and an appearance by Blanche DuBois, followed by Groucho Marx and a messenger from Western Union...
It was the country of Jefferson, Washington and Lincoln and W.E. B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass and Marcus Garvey. It was the land of freedom and slavery, achievement and misery. It was a nation that revealed itself, in its history and philosophy, as an enigma; a confrontation of race and ideals...