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H. erectus was an extraordinarily successful and mobile group, so well traveled, in fact, that fossils from the species were first found thousands of miles away from its original home in Africa. In the 1890s, Eugene Dubois, an adventurous Dutch physician, joined his country's army as an excuse to...
Harvard's Afro-American Studies program is without doubt among the best --if not the best--in the nation. Through a string of faculty recruitments in recent years, the program has amassed an impressive array of academic all-stars. The department's chair, W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the...
The director's cut brings "Streetcar' up to a standard more suitable for the modern palate. we see a richer portrayal of the sexuality of Blanche Dubois, played stupendously by Vivien Leigh, and Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead of a doting housewife and her lonely sister, we see full-bodied emotional...
On the surface, this movie deals with the alcoholism, sexism and abuse of the really codependent but superficially "O-so-happy, June Cleaver" marriages of 1950s America. Through the dialogue and manners of Blanche Dubois, we realize how easily the surface can be scraped away to reveal the truth. Typically...
This flirtation of Black student organizations at elite colleges with the venomous forms of ethnocentric Black populism associated with the Nation of Islam is, unfortunately, not new. Since the middle 1980s, intellectually infantile clusters of African-American students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have...