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Gates, the chair of the Department ofAfro-American Studies, said students will choosethe texts in his Afro-Am seminars next year. Buthe said he would leap at the chance to do a"critical reading" of the Nation of lslam's book...
More immediately, Appiah will be handling much of the restructuring of the Afro-American Studies Department. Next year, he will teach Afro-Am 10, a new course which will introduce the major works and issues of the field. In addition, the department will offer two smaller required courses, 11 and 12, with annually changing topics...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles laudsGates' work with the department in his first year.And Fisher says Gates' appointment and the growthof Afro-Am was a major accomplishment for DerekBok's final year in the presidency...
This year, the department drew an unprecedented45 concentrators, a number Gates expects to risesteadily. Ad although the year was hardly freefrom student protests and demon-strations, foronce none of them focused of Afro...
...revived Afro-Am seems to be on a roll, andGates sounds exuberant. "It's been a gloriousyear," he says