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Harvard Du Bois Institute

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.break

http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/

  • Africa in the Soul: Salvaging Identity from Wreckage

    Wed, May 5, 2004
    Emmanuel N. Obiechina discusses the psychology of recovery after Africans left their continent, began to stabilize from their disorientation, and started to restore their identities through narrative.
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  • Living Black History: The Revolution in Black Studies

    Thu, Apr 22, 2004
    Manning Marable describes how African American studies must evolve by the midpoint in this century if it is to be a legitimate and relevant project.
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  • Living Black History: Preserving Malcolm X's Legacy

    Wed, Apr 21, 2004
    Manning Marable asks what happens to a movement when its most celebrated heroes, like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are transformed into commercial brands.
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  • Age of Revolution: The Black American

    Mon, Nov 8, 2004
    Gary Nash discusses the black American.
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  • Age of Revolution: Race, Citizenship, and National Identity

    Wed, Nov 10, 2004
    Gary Nash discusses race, citizenship, and national identity.
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  • Age of Revolution: Founding Fathers and Slavery

    Tue, Nov 9, 2004
    Gary Nash lectures on the historical issues surrounding slavery in the era of the American Revolution.
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  • Black Writers: Edwidge Danticat and Colson Whitehead

    Sun, Feb 23, 2003
    Authors Edwidge Danticat, *Krik? Krak!*, *Breath, Eyes, Memory*; and Colson Whitehead, *John Henry Days*, *The Intuitionist*, will read from their work.
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  • Black Writers: Andrea Lee and Jamaica Kincaid

    Wed, Feb 5, 2003
    Authors Andrea Lee, *Interesting Women: Stories*, *Russian Journal*; and Jamaica Kincaid, *Annie John*, *At the Bottom of the River*, *Lucy*, *A Small Place*, *The Autobiography of My Mother*, *My Brother*, read from their work.
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  • Black Writers: Zadie Smith and Caryl Phillips

    Wed, Feb 12, 2003
    Authors Zadie Smith, *White Teeth* and *The Autograph Man*, and Caryl Phillips, *The Final Passage*, *Crossing the River* and *Cambridge* will read from their work. ** Zadie Smith**, at age 14, changed her name from Sadie to Zadie, and in 2000, as a 21-year-old Cambridge University graduate, published her first novel, *White Teeth*. In her second novel, *The Autograph Man,* Smith dissects both celebrity culture and mystic Judaism. Smith has now turned to nonfiction, spending a few years stateside as a fellow at Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute. She is at work on a book of essays, *The Morality of the Novel,* in which she considers a selection of 20th-Century writers through the lens of moral philosophy. **Caryl Phillips** was born in St. Kitts on March 13, 1958 and moved to England after just one year. There he took an honors BA at Oxford and began his writing career. Currently, he lives in Amherst where he serves as writer in residence. Phillips was recently appointed as chief editor of the Faber and Faber Caribbean writers' series. Watch ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's two-part adaptation of Zadie Smith's [White Teeth](http://wgbh.org/program-info?episode\_id=896509) on WGBH Channels 2 and 44.
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  • Black Writers: Rita Dove and John Wideman

    Wed, Mar 5, 2003
    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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