Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That agenda, he says, "is fairly typical of Afro-American studies across the country." If Harvard can successfully recruit candidates to fill those posts, then the department will be in "excellent" shape over the next 10 years...
...whatever the fate of individual departments of Afro-American Studies, scholars say the dramatic recent shift in the field has given new life to Black Studies as an academic discipline. The question that remains is whether the soul of the field will be lost in the process...
...been a long struggle really--players have changed, standards have changed, conditions have changed. Today, Afro-American studies in literature have levels of prestige never before attained. We are in a mini-Golden Age," Rampersad says. "But we've got to remember the struggle--the Black academic community must understand what the field is all about...
Arnold Rampersad, the Columbia professor Harvard hopes to lure to Cambridge for a joint appointment in the Afro-Am and English Departments, says his interest in Black literature was born during the political turmoil of the late 1960s...
Rampersad, whose recent biography of Langston Hughes is "the founding work in Afro-American literary biography," according to University of Pennsylvania Professor Houston Baker, is part of a new generation of Black scholars, educated in top-flight universities around the period of the Civil Rights movement and the student anti-war movement...