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"Archie seems to be the arbitrator, the mediator," says Lee Daniels '71, a preceptor in Expository Writing and an associate of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute who has known Epps well since Daniels' undergraduate years. "The voice is always kind of solicitous and concerned, and yet there is a little hint...
Certainly, Harvard has come a long way since W.E.B. DuBois, unable to afford a spacious room in Harvard Yard, was forced to rent a home from an African American woman on Flagg Street, near where Mather House stands today.
Harvard's DuBois Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosphy of Religion Cornel West '73, two of the most distinguished black intellectuals in the United States, have recently published a book called The Future of the Race. When two black intellectuals of the caliber...
The Future of the Race is composed of two essays, one by Gates, the other by West, a joint preface by both scholars and reprints of two essays by W.E.B. DuBois (the appendix also includes a look at "The Talented Tenth" by Gates). In the preface, they speak of the...
* W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1890, is lauded as an example of Harvard's 19th-century openmindedness, yet his experience here, isolated from most white students, was far from happy. "I was at Harvard, but not of it," he once wrote.