Cards, Candy, ^ Gifts, Candles! A prize drawing for a free cordless phone & Talk n Toss phone cards! UNIVERSITY OF OREGON This Saturday! for ages 3-8 Upstairs from Noon - 1:00 pm This Week: & Valentine's Celebration LURE AND LOATHING Essays on Race, Identity and the Ambivalence of Assimilation Edited by Gerald Early In this book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, James McPherson, Stephen L. Carter, Itabari Njeri, Reginald McKmght and other prominent African Americans reconsider with vast originality and candor the 'LURE AND LOATHING" that characterize the experience of black people in white America. SdMLDURlT A- « ’One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." W.E. B. Du Bois wrote these words almost 100 years ago, and they remain hauntingly apt today. The thoughts of these twenty black intellectuals addressing the double-consciousness of African Americans will galvanize, stimulate—and sometimes discomfort—readers both black and white. Paperback 11.95