Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois lectures feature Melissa Harris-Lacewell

Princeton’s PoliSci professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell was asked to give Harvard University’s Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series last weekend. She is an Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Princeton, although I most often see her as a guest commentator on Rachel Maddow’s News show on MSNBC.

Anyway, she is one of only three women given this honor since 1982 (along with Marian Wright Edelman, Hazel Carby, and Barbara Fields).  Fortunately, her lectures were taped and are available at Harvard’s website. The series is titled:

Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
with three lectures:
Lecture 1: Subjects or Citizens: Feeling Black in Post-Katrina America
Lecture 2: Faith of Our Mothers: Women Bearing the Burdens of Citizenship
Lecture 3: I am Obama: Forging a New Black Citizenship