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The project Gates considers his most important is also his most lucrative to date--the Encyclopedia Africana , co-edited with Appiah.
West's essay on Du Bois in Africana seemed a re-working of his essay on Du Bois in The Future of the Race . There is nothing new said in his Africana essay, and his presentism, his insistence on judging a historical figure by current moral standards, I find fatuous, just poor scholarship.
What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.
(That last isn't all that unreasonable, given the unremittingly cheerful Ebony magazine-like achievement accounting of Africana .)
This I find enormously frustrating about a book like Africana . This is why I am puzzled that a man of Gates' abilities wants to do such unsatisfying and such compromised intellectual work as this.