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And thus upon our lunchtime dialogue at Washington's Jefferson Hotel (named for that numinous slave-owning paradox) there descends the ancestral "twoness," something of the familiar racial veil W.E.B. DuBois wrote about in 1903.
I look up DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk and admire again its rolling thunder: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American...
But when the train pulled into the San Francisco Shopping Centre, a mall on Market Street admired for its accessibility, the wheelchair lift refused to work. Breslin tinkered and finally made it move by asking a bystander to hold the bottom gate tightly shut while she pushed buttons inside. Later...
Bringing Harvard's once-beleaguered Department of Afro-American Studies into a new era is DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had been at Duke University for only one year when Harvard grabbed him. Bitter Duke students joked that Gates got his nickname, "Skip," because he...
Wilson says faculty like W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who currently chairs the department, and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West, are revitalizing a once stagnant department.