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Harvard Du Bois Institute Lectures

Cambridge, MA

Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Kenneth Mack
May 4, 2012
00:50:34
Kenneth Mack discusses his book Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.
Edwidge Danticat: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat
November 17, 2010
00:53:46
Award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat discusses her reflection on art and exile, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Danticat is introduced by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
US Supreme Court and Race
US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
March 10, 2010
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
February 8, 2010
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing.
Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours
Adam Gopnik
February 9, 2009
01:58:22
A panel moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Director of the W.E.B.
Audio-only
Mental Health Awareness in the Black Community II
Terrie Williams
March 22, 2006
00:31:30
Terrie Williams leads a panel discussion about mental health awareness in the black community. Panelists include Dr. Alvin F.
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Kenneth Mack
May 4, 2012
00:50:34
Kenneth Mack discusses his book Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.
Audio-only
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
April 25, 2003
01:55:23
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University celebrates the centennial of a pivotal publication by inviting the public to hear writers, critics, and members of Harvard's faculty and administration read some of the many memorable passages from The Souls of Black Folk.
Audio-only
News Out of Africa: Challenges Within and Without
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
May 5, 2003
01:20:14
Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about new news out of Africa, which holds out the promise of the most dramatic developments in Africa since the end of colonial rule 40 years ago.
Re-Membering Africa: Memory, Restoration and African Renaissance
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
March 16, 2006
01:55:05
Ngugi wa Thiong'o explores the resistance of African memory to European capitalist modernity's attempts to bury it under Europhonism. The resurrection of African memory is seen as part and parcel of the African renaissance and Afro-modernity.
Audio-only
Living Black History: Resurrecting Intellectual Tradition
Manning Marable
April 20, 2004
01:49:36
Manning Marable describes his theoretical approach to the writing of African history and the construction of black studies, which is directly connected with living history.
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
February 8, 2010
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. Founded in 1975, the Institute serves as the site for research projects, fellowships for emerging and established scholars, publications, conferences, and working groups. Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard (1895), the Du Bois Institute also sponsors four major lecture series each year and serves as the co-sponsor for numerous public conferences, lectures, readings, and forums.
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