Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lori Olszewski from the San Francisco Chronicle is interested in African, Mexican and Asian history and culture, as well as child development...
...When [Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis] "Skip" Gates approached me in 1995 about once again joining Harvard, this time I listened because with the new additions to the faculty, this would be an outstanding environment for an African-American scholar..." Wilson said...
...ourselves," he said. "It's not easy to recruit the very best African-American scholars--even at a place like Harvard...
...result, he said administrators have workedto increase the number of minority appointees, inaddition to looking for new ways to attract blackfaculty members. These techniques, he said,included looking for potential faculty membersfrom law, business and education schools andinstructing search committee members to "identifyand pursue African-American candidates...
...number of us feel guilty because there'ssuch a concentration of African-American facultyhere [at Harvard]," he said. "The only way we'regoing to deal with the problem is to enlarge thepool...