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Professor of English and American Languages Philip J. Fisher says Afro-Am is now "on the map as a great department, and as a department doing something as yet unfinished, but very ambitious...
...even if Afro-Am turns toward the social sciences in the future, Patterson says. "They should stick to the cultural end of sociology and politics...rather than the more hard-core sort of studies of poverty and inequality...
...addition to forging a niche and a speciality for Afro-Am, Gates says he is trying to ensure that the department is seen as a legitimate academic institution...
Part of bringing the department away from the margins involves bringing it into the limelight. And gates brought national attention to Afro-Am this semester with the arrival of filmmaker Spike...
After 60 students were selected from applications and the class moved into more intimate setting, the Lee fervor died down somewhat. Now, Afro-Am is negotiating for Lee to return to the department in the fall--this time for a smaller seminar on Afro-American film, or possibly on scriptwriting...