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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/

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    Jazz and Modern Africa: Marabi Modernists

    Thu, Nov 20, 2003
    Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley explores the political and cultural tensions surrounding jazz in South Africa during the 1950s.
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  • Jazz and Modern Africa: Spiritual Strivings

    Tue, Nov 18, 2003
    Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley discusses the need for scholars to establish deep connections between jazz artists and the various movements that presumably influence them.
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  • Race, Sports, and Affirmative Action

    Tue, Oct 28, 2003
    Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his cultural observations on African American athletes. Early traverses a number of subjects in his writing, seemingly without effort, from a study of African American rhetoric to a meditation on boxing, from an historical survey of assimilation to an exploration of Motown.
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  • Jazz and Modern Africa: Drum Wars

    Wed, Nov 19, 2003
    Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley discusses what it means to be an African jazz musician, and what political and commercial strings are attached to that description.
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  • Black Pentecostalism in Global Context IV

    Fri, Mar 18, 2005
    This conference looks at the history and contemporary expansion of Pentecostalism among people of African descent. The first two panels offer an engaging, scholarly approach to this topic, while the final panel presents a lively discussion among leading clerics about the future of Pentecostalism. The keynote address for the conference challenges the audience to consider the responsibility of Pentecostals (those within and without traditional denominations) for pursuing justice and humanity in the world. Co-sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies, Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School.
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  • Sidney Mintz on Jamaica

    Tue, Apr 22, 2003
    Anthropologist Sidney Mintz discusses the history of Jamaica, as the first lecture in a three-part series on the islands of the Caribbean.
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  • Africa in the Soul: Continent Severely Wounded

    Tue, May 4, 2004
    Emmanuel N. Obiechina discusses the upheavals that led to the mass expatriations of millions of Africans.
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  • Living Black History: Resurrecting Intellectual Tradition

    Tue, Apr 20, 2004
    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. He argues that oppressed people in the United States generally think about their living history very differently from those closer to centers of institutional power. Because of the difficult circumstances of their lives, the oppressed often celebrate myth over factual accuracy. No black poets have written about Clarence Thomas or Condi Rice, but entire books, films, symphonies, and even an opera have been composed about the life of the heroic figure Malcolm X.
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  • Giant Steps: Formations of a Black Music Aesthetic

    Thu, Mar 18, 2004
    Dwight D. Andrews, an accomplished musician, scholar, composer, and minister, describes what we might mean when we talk about "black music."
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  • Brown v. Board of Education: Mission Accomplished?

    Wed, Aug 25, 2004
    A discussion on the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision with a VIP panel that includes Harvard's Charles Ogletree, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Caroline Hoxby, and Lani Guinier, as well as Georgetown professor Sheryll Cashin and Abigail Thernstrom of the Manhattan Institute.
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