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DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. spoke about the motivation and tribulation behind his "Encarta Africana" encyclopedia to a packed room at the sigma Chi fraternity house last night...
According to Gates, "DuBois decided what we needed was an Encyclopedia Africana," he said. His hope was to combat racism by eliminating ignorance about black culture around the world...
Gates spoke first on the history of the idea of a "black encyclopedia," which originated with W.E.B. DuBois in the early part of this century. DuBois, who became the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard in the late 1800s, was unable to see the project through to its conclusion in his lifetime...
...software that could, as he put it, keep "track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains are supposed to be so good at remembering but sometimes mine wouldn't." He called it Enquire, short for Enquire Within Upon Everything, a Victorian-era encyclopedia he remembered from childhood...
...that highlight the work's major themes. Music producer Quincy Jones and comedian Whoopi Goldberg discuss race and music; the volume's co-editors, Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, explain the struggle begun in 1909 by black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to publish an encyclopedia that would chronicle black history...