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Leaders in "The Campaign to End the Death Penalty" include Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74 and Robert H. Meeropol, executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children...
...LEGION OF ADMIRERS, THE Afro-American studies department that Henry Louis Gates Jr. is assembling at Harvard is the most glittering display of black brainpower since W.E.B. Du Bois studied alone at the university a century ago. To its detractors in the black-studies movement, it is simply a collection of high-profile academic hustlers driven more by a lust for fame and big lecture fees than by any deep commitment to the field. Either way, the house that Gates is building in Cambridge has emerged as the most visible sign that black studies has been reborn as a vibrant...
That is especially true now that Gates has snagged one of the country's most influential sociologists--the University of Chicago's William Julius Wilson, who will be a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in Harvard's department of Afro-American studies. That means "Afro-Am," heretofore best known for Gates' esoteric literary theories and Cornel West's philosophical fulminations on race, will be a strong voice in public debates over poverty and racial tension. During Wilson's 24 years at Chicago, his research on how worldwide economic changes combined with the residual effects...
Fortunately, that was not the only trend. At Columbia, for example, there has been an Afro-American studies program--on paper anyway--since 1969. But it was not until 1993, after several student protests, that the university hired respected radical historian Manning Marable to establish and direct the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, which now boasts 60 courses and 25 faculty members with affiliations in 10 other academic departments...
...been able to entice a black conservative or an Afrocentric with Harvard-worthy credentials. And though they disagree on many issues, they agree that black studies is not for blacks only, as some Afrocentrics maintain. Says Gates: "We stand as a rebuttal to the idea that Afro-American studies is primarily about building the self-esteem of other African Americans, or that only African Americans can understand, interpret and therefore teach black studies." When Gates took over as chairman, only one student was majoring in "Afro studies." Today the department's courses are among the most popular that Harvard offers...