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Once again, student activism, sans the radicalism of the late 1960s, took center stage. Nathan Glazer, a visiting professor at the time of the initial controversy, and currently an affiliate of the Afro-Am department, responds to the inevitable compa: "The Afro-Am issue of the '60s was much tenser. The political aspect is much milder this time. The department already exists...
Hall says he believes that the same factors that led to Afro-Am's troubled origins have not changed. "Inertia still prevails," Hall says. "These problems are complicated by the peculiar problems of the history department at Harvard, its inbred quality that self-selects from its own graduate school...
Administrators and concentrators alike say that last week's appointment of Duke's Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--one of the nation's preeminent Afro-Am scholars--may herald a new era for the department. If the administration's optimistic assessment is correct, Gates stands at the core of a new generation of Afro-Am scholars, many of whom they hope to attract to Harvard...
Administrators acknowledge that Gates's appointment places the Afro-Am department at a crucial juncture. But student supporters of Afro-Am point to the department's troubled roots as proof that such difficult challenges will need to be addressed both persistently and passionately...
...appointment of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. promises a new future for Afro-Am. But the challenge of escaping the struggles of the past is causing some, including a former student activist, to look back...