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October 2009
This month we feature a new CNN video: Soledad O'Brien reports on a teen finding his roots through DNA testing; Publication of the "New Literary History of America" Co-Edited by Professor Werner Sollors; Information on the new Fellows at the Institute this fall; and the exquisite Jacob Lawrence installation - "Resistance and Revolution" - NOW OPEN!
Have a great month everyone!

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In The News
Young cnn videoAfrican Americans find their roots with DNA testing, featuring Professor Gates.

NOW AVAILABLE "A New Literary History of America"
Co-Edited by Professor Werner Sollors
New York Times
New Literary History of America
New Fellows Have Arrived!
View Bios and Project Descriptions

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Featured Projects @ the Institute
Africa Map
Publications
Annual Report 2009
Download the 2009 Annual Report


Transition 101
Transition:
An International Review
Looking Ahead

Transition 101 features Rita Dove, Petina Gappah, Miranda Pyne, Souleymane Bachir Diagne,  Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and more...

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The Du Bois Review:Du Bois Review
Social Science Research on Race
The Obama Issue

The Du Bois Review (Volume 6, Issue 1) opens with a new interview series, featuring conversations between Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and eminent scholars on broad areas of research regarding race. This issue's conversation, with distinguished sociologist William Julius Wilson, brings to light the thinking of one of the most penetrating social thinkers of our time on what it was like to witness the 2008 presidential election.

Watch the Video of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. interviewing William Julius Wilson
Professor Gates Interviewing Professor Wilson
Now in the Rudenstine Gallery
Resistance and Revolution:
Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints

Toussaint L'OuvertureBetween 1986 and 1997 Jacob Lawrence created fifteen large silk-screen prints identical to key images from his earlier 1937 series, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture. On view at the Rudenstine Gallery during the Fall 2009 semester, the prints tell the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture, born a slave, but who rose to lead the liberation of Haiti. Captured by the invading troops of Napoleon Bonaparte, he died in a French prison the year before Haiti won its independence in 1804.

Exhibit Curator: Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History, Boston University

Curator Talk: 6-7PM - October 29, 2009, Sackler Museum. FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION AT THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE.
 
(C) 2009 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
General Toussaint, silk-screen print, Courtesy of the DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Event Calendars - Fall 2009
Major Lectures & Events
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Fellows Lunchtime Colloquia
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Martha's Vineyard Event 2009
"Achieving Equality in Old Whaling Church
the Age of Obama"

Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and moderated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, this year's panel  featured Professors Lawrence Bobo, Linda Darling-Hammond, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Claude Steel, and New York Times columnist Charles Blow.
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