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So, a book like Africana is bound to get a great deal of use, to be sold to virtually every school, public, and university library in the country, as well as to a number of churches, to say nothing of the private homes that will have a copy right next to the Britannica . (In some more Afrocentric black homes, it may replace the Britannica entirely, that Eurocentric collection of lies, although Britannica has become as multicultural as everyone else these days.)
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.
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 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.
We're probably more in accord on Africana than not, but I think you were too easy on Gates.
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