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However, the Harvard administration has demonstrated its good faith commitment to resurrecting this long-neglected department. In addition to the Gates coup, Harvard has offers outstanding to two scholars who could become the only junior professors in the Afro-Am department. After Gates agreed to head north, Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky promised that Harvard would continue to press for improvements in Afro-Am: "One appointment is not the end of the story," he vowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Road to Recovery | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...after striking out last spring, Harvard connected for a grand slam last Thursday when Duke's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., accepted a lifetime post at the University. This was no two-bit pickup--Gates is widely considered the top Afro-Am scholar the nation has to offer. If anyone can breathe new life into the dwindling department, Gates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Road to Recovery | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Harvard lured this intellectual luminary to Cambridge by offering him the chairmanship of the Afro-Am Department, the directorship of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and an undoubtedly substantial salary. Now the administration must prove it can attract lesser-known junior faculty in the field. Two professors do not a department make, even if one of them is among the best in the business. And Harvard has a responsibility to develop younger scholars in the field--not merely to raid the upper echelons of other universities' faculties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Road to Recovery | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...drive to raise Afro-Am from the ashes is far from over. But it has clearly begun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Road to Recovery | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...fact, such opposition to an Afro-Am program dates back to the department's creation 20 years ago. The subsequent years have seen a constant struggle between those who have supported and those who have opposed--either actively or by casual neglect--the institutional legitimacy that a strong department lends the study of Afro-American issues...

Author: By Roger G. Kuo, | Title: The Troubled History of Afro-Am | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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