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Article: Gates profiles black leaders with an insider's wisdom.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 9, 1997
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In his new book, Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells of being one of the few black kids at an Episcopal Church camp when the Watts riot broke out in 1965. "Watching myself being watched by all of the white campers . . . I experienced that strange combination of power and powerlessness that you feel when the actions of another black person affect your own life, simply because both are black."
Gates, the W.E.B. Dubois Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is always a wonder when it comes to using anecdote to define a position. And his church-camp story is no exception, for it's a microcosm of what he's attempting in ...
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