Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University of Chicago, meanwhile, which lost Wilson to Harvard this year, Co-Chair of the Committee on African and African-American Studies Kenneth Warren is similarly resigned...
...problem with [Harvard's] getting all that attention is that...the general public might think that that's the most important African-American studies department, or that they have a lock on African-American intelligentsia," says Harris, visiting professor of African and African-American studies at Washington...
...publicity that the Harvard department has received has always been in conjunction with weighty and substantial projects, such as the Norton volume of African-American literature," Rampersad says, referring to a major work recently edited by Gates. "It simply raises the visibility and the prestige of the field and we all benefit from...
Julius Nyang-oro, chair of the department of African and Afro-American studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says Harvard's work has had a positive effect on his department...
...very good idea to have all those big names in one place," Nyang-oro says. "It does expose African-American studies to an audience it might not otherwise be exposed...