Word: africana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were times when an individual came up for tenure and the two sponsoring departments would not agree," said Henry L. Gates, a literary scholar who left the Yale program in 1985 for Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. Gates is one of three Afro-American Studies professors who have left Yale since...
Robert Harris, director of Africana Studies and Research at Cornell, said he felt programs at such colleges as the University of Wisconsin and UCLA were challenging the Yale program's status as one of the best in the country...
Several professors who asked not to be named say that Harvard has tried on and off for years to lure Gates, to Harvard as a tenured professor, but they say those recruiting efforts have never resulted in a formal offer. Gates, a Cornell professor who holds appointments in the Africana Studies, Comparative Literature and English departments there, has written several books in recent years that have greatly expanded the reach of Afro-American literary criticism, scholars...
...Cornell is concerned about its relationship to schools like Harvard and Stanford," said co-author Gates, a professor of English and Africana studies and Cornell's only Black full professor. "We set our goals in relation to them," said Gates, who is also the chairman of Harvard's Visiting Committee on Afro-American Studies and a research associate at Harvard's Dubois Institute...
Racial incidents on campus within the past few years have included the vandalization of the Africana Studies and Research, and the disruption of Ujamaz, a predominantly Black living center on Campus, by a series of bomb threats, a broken window, and the theft of its sign...