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W.E.B. Dubois Professor of Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. first helped Ashong by referring him to Cinque Henderson '94, who happened to be a development executive at Dreamworks. Henderson later brought Ashong to Spielberg's attention.
Gates, who also is DuBois professor of humanities, has already left campus and will be working on the film project throughout the fall. After returning to teach in the spring, Gates will revisit the project and complete the series over the summer. It will be aired by PBS and the...
Also on the reading list: Black Culture and Black Consciousness, in which Lawrence Levine analyzes black culture by looking at songs, folk tales, oral poems, proverbs and games, and The Souls of Black Folk, the classic work by W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1892.
Many black students grew to uniquely understand what DuBois meant when he wrote that African-American experience two unreconciled stirrings: being black and being an American. Many of the U.S. casualties of the Vietnam War were black boys from poor neighborhoods.
Salk said the Afro-American studies department is especially pleased because her department's large new space in the Barker Center--which features a special library--will finally allow it to operate more closely with the DuBois Institute.