Word: afro
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West’s departure is a blow to the Afro-American studies department, which is also losing to Princeton next year K. Anthony Appiah, Carswell professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy...
Gates, the chair of the Afro-American studies department, said West played a vital role in the transformation of the department into one of the leading black studies programs in the country...
...Cornel West’s recruitment to Harvard was crucial in establishing the department’s place of leadership in the field of Afro-American studies,” Gates said in a statement released this afternoon. “He will be sorely missed and my colleagues and I wish him well in his new position...
...problems ahead should be apparent before even entering the building. Employees immediately direct suckers up a flight of dark, dingy, dilapidated stairs to the upstairs dining room. Bursting with musical kitsch, the decor includes a picture of a smiling monk sporting a large afro. He looks down benignly on the hungry gospel-seekers who are seated at long tables covered with red-and-white checkered tablecloths. Every last square inch of the walls is covered with assorted bric-a-brac that might look fitting at a tired T.G.I. Friday’s, if only it were cleaned better...
...Richard Wright has been systematically finalized and reduced,” said Rowley, who is also a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research...