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Such a book as Africana simply washes the practitioners in the field in a sea of ambivalence, with a sense of lost faith, as we all stand before it a bit as Matthew Arnold stood before Dover Beach.
The introduction offers a good and useful account of Du Bois' attempt to produce an Africana encyclopedia, the professional jealousy he encountered, the racism that sometimes thwarted his efforts.
Africana is as least as good as the two or three other encyclopedias of black history and culture that sit in storage while I wait for my shoulder to heal enough so I can build bookshelves.
Still, in the spirit of fairness, before I get back to beating the boy, I have to list a few things I like about Africana . The brief essay on Kathleen Conwell--also known as Kathleen Collins--acknowledges a filmmaker who deserves wider recognition.
What I'm really puzzled about this morning is the omission of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Alan McPherson from Africana . McPherson was one of my teachers at the University of Iowa; in fact, I went to the writing program there to study with him.