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Armed to defend himself, Bloom pointed to the words of W.E.B. DuBois, who in Souls of Black Folk himself cited the importance of reading Shakespeare. "Does that satisfy you?" Bloom asked, and in the question one hears the heart of the problem.
In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. DuBois wrote of the "twoness" that blacks in the U.S. constantly confront. If "African American" wins wide usage, it may be a small step toward reconciling some of the conflicts and contradictions of black life in this nation.
At a dinner with members of Harvard's Afro-Am Department following his talk, Gates and DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathin I. Huggins engaged in a long discussion on precisely this topic. Professors who atteneded the dinner said the night represented a kind of passing of...
Dorothy Porter, whom colleagues called a "legend" in the field of Afro-American bibliography, has been appointed a fellow at Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for the 1988 academic year.
Catherine Clinton, another DuBois Fellow for 1988-'89, agreed that the Institute scholars provide "cross-fertilization." Being at the Institute "really stimulates us to get going on our projects," she said.