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Before Henry Louis Gates, Jr., West was asked to direct Harvard's Afro-Am Department. But West says he refused for a variety of reasons...
Building an Afro-Am program, West says, is hard, especially in an old institution whose students and faculty have traditionally been overwhelmingly white...
...Princeton, he says, the Afro-Am department works closely with the English, history and anthropology departments...
...later that night, Bok faced approximately 150 protestors chanting, "What do we want? Afro-Am faculty. When do we want it? Now!" and "We won't go back!" as he left a Kennedy School of Government forum...
Lessons can be learned from the Black Students Association (BSA) and its fight against the the dearth of faculty in the Afro-American Studies Department two years ago. When talks with the administration over Afro-Am hiring broke down, BSA-led protests--including sit-ins at University Hall--paved the way for the expanded Afro-Am Department...