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Wilson "might be speaking French, talking jive or speaking straight standard English," says Robert L. Hall '69, who worked with Wilson on the Afro-Am ad hoc committee. He was always controlled and comfortable, "almost chameleon-like...
With the Quad as it was first conceived, such divisions would be plastered over. The Freshman Union would be renovated, and everyone would be happy. Folklore and Mythology could swap tales with Women's Studies. Classics professors could find out what they had in common with their colleagues in Afro-Am. Those crazy folks in Comparative Religion could get together with all kinds of students and professors on the weekends and have a sort of, well, mind-expanding session...
Since 1991, the Harvard community has marveled at the tremendous growth within the Department of Afro-American Studies. With the appointment of Cornel R. West '74, Harvard's Afro-Am department has established itself as the country's unequivocal center of Afro-Am scholarship...
...only goes to show what a little commitment can do. Three years ago, when West refused a tenured post in Afro-Am, the department had only one tenured professor and a small, embitered group of concentrators who were certain that Harvard was not taking their needs seriously. Since the, Afro-Am has been transformed--not only because of [DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-Am chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s] charismatic leadership, but also because [former President Derek C. Bok and former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky ] were willing to devote the resources to rebuilding Afro...
...think the faculty gave a damn in 1969 about the cartoon of an Afro-Am department," Daniels says...