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After 15 years, the Department of African and African American Studies is changing hands. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Thomas professor of history and of Af-Am, is the second woman to lead the department, three years shy of its 40th birthday. Former chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who is Du Bois professor of the Humanities, will continue directing the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...
...Study of Religion] I would like to answer this question through a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed. 5) [Women, Gender, and Sexuality] To be honest, I only took this course to pick up girls. I haven’t the slightest idea what systems of oppression even means. 6) [Af-Am] I learned everything I need to know about this subject from watching “The Disorderlies,” so here goes: 7) [Bits] 10010101...2! LOLZ 8) [Government] I’m just a bill/Yes, I’m only a bill/And I’m sittin?...
He’s not the only one to experience Gates’ charm. Gates—who has built the Af-Am Department into a powerhouse over his decade-and-a-half at its helm—says he has sent flowers to every single scholar he has tried to recruit...
...sciences might have more complex causes than ingrained societal oppression? Keep it to yourself.Tempted to paraphrase the Pulitzer Prize-winning, but politically incorrect arguments of Jared Diamond in your remarks to a gathering of historians? Not in this University, you don’t.Eager to see that untouchably cool Af-Am professor who calls everyone “Brother” return to academic research from his long foray into spoken word albums and Al Sharpton presidential bids? You’d best not even mention it. You’re probably a racist if you do.Any offensive opinion, including...
...Af-Am department is still awaiting responses from two additional offers...