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Hall, who was one of three student members of the faculty search committee for Afro-American Studies, points to a failed attempt to court University of Chicago historian John Hope Franklin as an example of this trend...
During the same time period that Harvard searched in vain, Yale was able to construct a prominent Afro-American studies department were colleagues at Yale decades ago: Gates, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah and Cornel R. West...
According to Hall, Afro-Am search committee members were advised by other faculty members to try a "sociological approach" to hiring Black professors...
Because of this incident, Hall sought a degree in African history and became a leading member in the student movement for an African-American studies department at Harvard. Today, Hall is a professor of Afro-American studies and a historian at Northeastern University...
...involvement in the Afro-American struggle was directly linked to my concentration," Hal says. "There were no history courses that focused mainly on the African-American experience, none...