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Please come join us tonight at the Weatherhead Center for a personal presentation by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on "Genealogy, Genetics, and African American History." If you missed the Black Portrait Symposium this weekend in NY, then come over to the Institute for a conversation with Elizabeth Catlett on April 18th. Also coming up this April - the Kim Benston Locke lectures, and much more. We hope you enjoy the latest news of the Du Bois Institute and the long awaited spring weather!
Best,
Vera Ingrid Grant, Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Elizabeth Catlett
in Conversation with
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Monday, April 18th, 4:00 - 5:30
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138
Free and Open to the Public.
 DIGAME: Elizabeth Catlett's Forever Love
On view through May 26, 2011
Neil L. and Angelica
Zander Ruenstine Gallery
Gallery Hours:
M-F 9:00AM - 5:00PM
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138
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| New: Harold Mann Book Ceremony Coming in May 2011 |
Coming this Summer: 
NEH 2011 Summer Institute
for College and University Teachers: "African American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1865-1965"
June 27 - July 22, 2011
at the Du Bois Institute
Applications now closed.
For additional information:
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Save the Date: Martha's Vineyard Event at the Old Whaling Church
August 18th, 2011 |
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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University Presents:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Genealogy, Genetics, and African American History
Date: April 4, 2011
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.,
Room S250
Open to the Public.
Moderator: Panagiotis Roilos
Chair: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
For more info, visit wcfia.harvard.edu
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Racial Disparities in Health Care
Monday, April 4, 12 to 1:30pm
Harvard Law School, Pound 213
Forty years after the end of the Jim Crow era and the passage of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, there remain large racial disparities in the American healthcare system. This panel will explore the strengths and weaknesses of various policies that may be employed to alleviate ongoing racial health disparities. Such policies include those that enhance the enforcement or reach of existing civil rights laws and those that call for more direct and targeted quality-improvement initiatives. In addition, the panel will discuss those aspects of the Affordable Care Act that may lead to reduced disparities in care.
Panelists: Gregg Bloche, Amitabh Chandra, Anup Malani, David Barton Smith
Moderator: Michael Frakes
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Harvard Committee on African Studies Spring Events
Africa Theatre Night April 5th and April 7th @ 5:00pm Harvard Africa Seminar Robert Pringle, Harvard University April 12th @ 4:00pm - CGIS Knafel, Room K262 Reimagining South Sudan: A Symposium on the Future of a New African Country April 14th @ 4:00 pm - Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
CAS Graduate Student Workshop April 18th @ 5:00pm - CGIS South, Room S450
Harvard Africa Seminar David Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health
April 19th @ 4:00 pm - CGIS South, Room S450
Africa Research Seminar David Yanagizawa-Drott, Harvard Kennedy School
April 19th @ 4:00 pm - CGIS Knafel, Room K262
African Languages in the Disciplines Conference April 21st - April 22nd
For more events, visit africa.harvard.edu
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Now Showing at the Boston Museum of Science:
RACE: ARE WE SO DIFFERENT? On exhibit through Sunday, May 15. Free with general admission. |
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s latest documentary premieres Tuesday, April 19th, on PBS
Watch the trailer, read about the series, find local listings, and more...
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 BOSTON GLOBE
Review of Gerald Early's new book, A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports
Based on his Alain LeRoy Locke lectures, delivered at the Du Bois Institute in 2003
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Fellows in the News
Omar Wasow interviews Cory Booker for TheRoot.com "Is Cory Booker the First Twitter Mayor?" Linda Heywood's research featured in Bostonia Magazine
"The Enduring Power of Queen Njinga"
Congratulations to Susan Reverby for being awarded the 2011 James F. Sulzby Award (Alabama Historical Association) for her book, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" ! |
| Alumni Fellow Jason Sokol will be speaking on April 5th at the Boston University African American Studies Lecture Series: Forerunner: Edward Brooke, Black Power, and White Votes |
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Remaining Spring Colloquium Talks from Du Bois Fellows:
April 6
Huey Copeland
Assistant Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
Sisters, Or, Incidents in the Life of Modernism
April 13
Theodore Miller
Independent Scholar
Deconstructing the Beggar's Edifice: the Failure of Civil Rights & the Battle for Place in Hip Hop America
April 20
Kathleen Luckett
Associate Professor, Sociology, Coordinator of Academic Development, Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town
Africanizing the South African Higher Education Curriculum: A Social Realist Approach
April 27
Nirvana Tanoukhi
Independent Scholar
The Scale of World Literature: Strategies of Contextualization in the African Novel and Beyond
All talks are held from 12:00-1:30 in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138. Free and open to the public. Feel free to bring a lunch. |
| Recent Events @ The Institute |
Hiphop Archive Workout Session
Author Meets the Critics: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
 March 22, 2011
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Transition
Transition 105, forthcoming this spring, is teeming with thorny questions about being black in a global context. Even the "Black-Jewish Question," traditionally an American obsession, gains complexity when it involves a half-Kenyan president, Israel, or Igbo Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Abuja. Three writers explore three different intersections of the tribe and the people. But Jews-both black and white-are not the only ones who wander, and Transition follows several more journeys through the Diaspora in search of black meaning. A review of the new biography of Marcus Garvey, transatlantic hero, celebrates ties between Africa and the Americas, just as Bayo Holsey questions Wole Soyinka's reading of Africa's role in the slave trade. And amid these abstract tides of history, pushing back and forth, individuals are caught in small eddies: an African American anthropologist visits Brazil and has trouble getting back home; an American daughter of South African parents floats like a ghost between different cultures of death; a black writer can't quite find home in Harlem. With the idea of home in transition, at least all these ideas find a home in Transition.
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In the meantime, check out Transition 104 for music and muti. And keep an eye out for Transition's 50th Anniversary Issue forthcoming in Fall 2011.
Editors: Tommie Shelby, Glenda Carpio, Vincent Brown
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 Du Bois Review
In his book, The Philadelphia Negro, W. E. B. Du Bois (1899) bemoaned the "peculiar" attitude of indifference that America exhibited toward the human suffering reflected by the poor health of Blacks. The forthcoming Spring 2011 issue of the Du Bois Review (8.1) is a special issue dedicated to the topic "Racial Inequality and Health." Guest edited by David T. Takeuchi (University of Washington) and David R. Williams (Harvard University), the issue provides a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary racial health disparities research, featuring the work of more than sixty scholars in relevant fields.
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The FREE DBR transcript of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s interview with Condoleezza Rice is now available here.
Editors: Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
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