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Black Americans have long sought to integrate their culture into the national image, a struggle reflected in literature and Hollywood movies, Yale Professor Hazel Carby said yesterday in the second of three W. E. B. DuBois Lectures sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies.
According to Carby, DuBois' book The Souls of Black folk aims to "codify black existence in American culture" by reproducing the form and content of spirituals, folk songs dating from the time of slavery.
She said DuBois' own advancement as a political leader and social activist can be attributed to his dedication to virtue and education.
"It was the practice of intellectual analysis for DuBois to conquer impotence and allow self-respect," Carby said.
In his last years, assisted by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Bok achieved a break-through in Afro-American Studies with the appointment of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who came to Harvard from Duke to chair Afro-American Studies and to direct the W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Professor Gates...