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...There has definitely been a shift from a predominant concern with history in Afro-American studies that peaked in the 1970s with several prize-winning books," says Harvard's Afro-Am Department Chair Werner Sollors...
Johnson, who has concentrated her studies on Black women writers since 1980, says generational changes have a lot to do with the resurgence of literary studies within Afro-Am. "There are a lot of scholars who got interested in Black studies in the 1960s--many of them are now tenured someplace, and that has been formative in making a body of scholarship," she says...
This new trend in Black studies should have a profound effect on the direction of Afro-Am at Harvard, which is beginning to build up after having lain dormant for nearly a decade...
...joint appointment with Harvard's English and Afro-Am Departments is in the works, according to professors. But Arnold Rampersad, the scholar at Columbia, may prove difficult to lure away...
Sollors says the agenda for Harvard's Afro-Am Department is straightforward for the next few years: to hire a musicologist to replace Eileen Southern, professor of music emeritus, to find social scientists and finally, to strengthen the study of history and literature...