Word: afro
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...jealous' of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, why do you not support us with resources that are commensurate with our collective achievements and equal to theirs?" Carby wrote toward the end of her letter...
...chair of the program in African American studies, Carby faces the challenge of recruiting a top-notch faculty at a time when other colleges are making top-dollar offers to hire talented Afro-Am professors. According to Kutzinki, this task has been made difficult by the program's status at Yale...
...would say the faculty of Afro-American studies is completely devoted to the training of students of the undergraduate level, as we have been for years," he said...
Gates's own projects--Encyclopedia Africana and a series of television documentaries, have been labeled as self-promoting or trendy by scholars within the field of Afro-American studies...
Robert Stepto, the acting head of the Afro-American studies program at Yale, in an interview with Yale Daily News, called Gates a "saboteur and even a provocateur." Stepto said Gates is still angry that he was once denied tenure at Yale and is trying to diminish the reputation of the Yale program...