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Many students attending the class--even some ofthe privileged VES and Afro-Am concentrators withchoice floor seats--said they were glad the firstlecture had been moved from modest-sized Emerson210...
...works to build a new department, Gates is careful to emphasize that Afro-Am is for everybody, not just the concentrators. "We expect to be a place that all undergraduates will find support for interest in Afro-American culture," he says...
Nevertheless, non-concentrators will have a hard time seeing Gates, who is teaching a graduate seminar and an Afro-Am tutorial, or the department's other high-profile catch, Spike Lee, whose class is limited to 50 with preference given to Afro-Am concentrators...
...addition to chairing the department, Gates is the director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and is the editor of countless research projects. The Afro-Am chair says that all those committments mean that he regularly works 12-hour days...
...Anthony Appia accepted a tenured position in the Afro-American Studies Department. Appia, whose scholarship is in philosophy and literature, has been a faithful right-hand person to new Afro-Am chair Henry L. Gates, Jr. He and Gates were friends in college and have since taught together at Yale, Cornell and Duke...