Does it matter how you pronounce W.E.B Du Bois? It does for scholar and literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Spivak, author of "Can the Subaltern Speak" has kicked up a row-- after a video clip ...
Noted postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s admonition of a young scholar for mispronouncing African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois’s name at a recent lecture has caused a brouhaha in ...
There’s a silent letter in ‘Guevara,’ but not in ‘Du Bois.’ ...