Harvard Du Bois Institute

Harvard Du Bois Institute
Cambridge, MA
Beyond Mortal Vision: Harriet Wilson
P. Gabrielle Foreman
March 18, 2005
01:20:29
P. Gabrielle Foreman, associate professor of English and American studies at Occidental College; and Reginald H.
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Truth vs. Style: Challenge of Valaida Snow
Candace Allan
October 5, 2005
01:18:59
Candace Allen discusses her first novel, Valaida, based on the life of entertainer and jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow.
Africa in the Soul: Continent Severely Wounded
Emmanuel M. Obiechina
May 4, 2004
01:33:04
Emmanuel N. Obiechina discusses the upheavals that led to the mass expatriations of millions of Africans.
When Affirmative Action Was White
Ira Katznelson
September 22, 2005
00:55:48
Ira Katznelson discusses how racism and Jim Crow imposed themselves on the key social policies of the New Deal and the Fair Deal, and asks what the consequences are for America today.
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Black Writers: Rita Dove and John Wideman
Rita Dove
March 5, 2003
01:33:40
Authors Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), Through the Ivory Gate (1992), and John Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday , Philadelphia Fire, read from their work.
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Black Writers: Elizabeth Alexander and Suzan-Lori Parks
Elizabeth Alexander
March 12, 2003
01:31:03
Authors Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream Book, and Suzan-Lori Parks The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, read from their work.
Re-Membering Africa: Retrieval and Exchange of African Memory
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
March 15, 2006
02:00:47
Ngugi wa Thiong'o explores the resistance of African memory to European capitalist modernity's attempts to bury it under Europhonism.