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The evening was hosted by DuBois Professor of Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James Carroll, Jill McCorkle and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, who introduced the speakers.
Some, like DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, have been vocal in their opposition. Gates wrote strongly against the study in The New Republic.
And he cited W.E.B. DuBois's view that talented and successful Black individuals should help lift up the less educated.
Writing in 1901, the distinguished black critic and poet William Stanley Braithwaite argued, "We are at the commencement of a 'negroid' renaissance," one that "will have as much importance in literary history as the much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism...
In the Haitian adventure, the admixture of Carter's mind-set and personality to those of Clinton produced strange effects. Clinton turned himself into the hypermasculine, planes-in-the-air bad cop while Carter fluttered in as the angel of conciliation, the Blanche DuBois of crisis diplomacy.