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This shift in the direction of Black studies away from history and towards literature will surely be felt at Harvard over the next few years, as the University's Afro-Am and English Departments both begin to rebuild their senior faculties...
Indeed, it may be symbolic of the new connections between literature and Afro-American studies that Gates has just been appointed chair of Harvard's Afro-Am Visiting Committee, a position he says he will use to help Harvard emerge as a leader in the field...
...dinner with members of Harvard's Afro-Am Department following his talk, Gates and DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathin I. Huggins engaged in a long discussion on precisely this topic. Professors who atteneded the dinner said the night represented a kind of passing of the torch in Black studies from the older historian to the younger literary critic...
When the first Afro-American Studies departments were born out of the turbulent student activism of the 1960s, it was the historians such as John Hope Franklin and John Blassingame--the first head of Yale's Afro-Am Department--who led the march toward developing the new discipline...
...Because of [my] race and gender, I end up taking on more than perhaps I ought to," says Carolivia Herron, assistant professor of Afro-American studies and comparative literature. Although Herron also serves as Afro-Am head tutor, she has not received the customary reduction in teaching load given to head tutors because of the diminished number of courses in her department. She says the administration is working out a plan to ease her teaching responsibilities in the future...