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Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"-- a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
...anecdotal impression is that the conceptionof Harvard as having a new, invigorated interestin being on the cutting edge of a field like[Afro-Am] will help encourage minority scholars ofall levels and in all fields to consider cominghere," Hoyte said...
...come to connote the experience of minorities and immigrants in this country.Thus, course in several existing departments--East Asian Studies, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, etc.--do not qualify as "ethnic." In fact, the only departments that can call itself truly ethnic in this sense is Afro-American Studies. "Afro-Am," as it has come to be known, deals primarily with the history, sociology, and literature of Blacks in the United States...
Given that Afro-Am falls under the wide umbrella of E.S., the formation of a true E.S. department could only have one outcome: Afro-Am would be completely merged into it. Of course, the University would have to create some new course and hire some new professors to balance the E.S. curriculum with other minorities, but all of them would be essentially equal in the vast expanse of E.S. With only six professors on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences actually appointed in Afro-Am (along with a slew of visiting lecturers), the University could represent every minority proportionately with...
...this context that I "question what difference one professor can make." At this point, in my conversation with Ms. Kao, I was no longer discussing the specifics of the Afro-Am department, but instead some prevailing sentiments among the College and University community which I found disturbing. While Ms. Arden-Smith's and Ms. Kao's use of my statement--highlighted by their use of my picture--would seem to suggest that I questioned the abilities of Cornel West, I expressed nothing but praise for West's work, approach and the contributions he will bring to Harvard's Afro...