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Being Du Bois:

Lessons in the

Management of Identities

November 23, 2012 Print This Post         

 

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Kwame Anthony Appiah delivers the Henry Louis Gates Jr. Inaugural Lecture at Yale University, October 2012.

About the Speaker:

Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

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I'm perplexed about this lecture, "Being Du Bois: Lessons in the Identities Management of"...Henry Lewis Gates is an enigma almost self-aggrandizing...He would have made a great boxing promoter or a used car saleman; and this is the first in a series of lectures after the famous historian W.E.B. Du Bois.
...Years ago a friend of mind wrote a piece for an article his name is Lester Lewis, he passed away 5 years ago a journalist based in London...he mention in the article that scholars were not able to find a whole cache of research papers, tones of the stuff that Du Bois had done within his lifetime, those papers never surface and historian were wondering what became of them...Lester Lewis made the assertion that Henry Lewis Gates had taken Du Bois's research paper at the time he was working on a project about Du Bois...the whole controversy among certain scholars at that time was that Henry Lewis Gates, has stolen W.E.B. Du Bois papers...since Lester Lewis's death I haven't even heard the story again..."Food for thought"
— Edwin S Wilson