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DuBois, introduced as a guest of the Afro-American Studies department, spoke for about 50 minutes to a largely black audience of 250 in the Science Center.
DuBois will be teaching writing as a visiting associate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this spring. She is the author of 11 books, including several fictionalized biographies.
DuBois, who urged black students to study Arabic, warned of "a trend to anti-intellectualism that tends to crop up among our people."
DuBois, who returned last month to the United States after four years in Cario, Egypt, made frequent references to Africa as the black homeland. She called America "this alien land so different from the warm, fragrant, sun-drenched plains of Africa."
Only during questioning from the audience did DuBois refer to her husband, the black writer and sociologist, who died in 1963.