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...fact, BSA members met with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence several times this year to press their demands for a stronger Afro-Am department, Henry says...
...even such apparently simple requests are difficult for the Afro-Am Department to meet. Because of the protracted tenure process in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the difficulty of luring already-established scholars to Cambridge, the department has not made a senior-level appointment since Sollors...
...Afro-American Studies Department is more of a skeleton than anything else," says Henry, an English and American Literature concentrator who says he has not taken any Afro-Am courses. "The Afro-American Studies Department has fewer faculty members now that when it was first created. It has fewer course offerings than it did 20 years...
...DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, one of the two senior members in the department and its former chair, says Afro-Am suffers more from an image problem--fed by negative press and BSA politics--than from structural flaws...
...evidence of this strength, department members point to the growing list of related courses offered by other departments which count for Afro-Am credit. Specifically, they cite the popularity of Literature and Arts A-50, "Black Women Writers," and other courses dealing with questions of ethnicity and Afro-American culture...