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Thomson Professor of Government Jorge IgnacioDominguez will chair the committee. Other memberswill be: Lowell Professor of Sociology StanleyLieberson, Cabot Professor of English Literatureand Professor of Afro-American Studies WernerSollors, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A.Thernstrom, Professor of Chinese History andPhilosophy WeiMing Tu and Loeb Associate Professorof the Social Sciences Mary C. Waters
Hoyte said another factor which will encourageminority Ph.D. applicants is the perceivedascendancy of the Afro-American studies departmenthere...
...anecdotal impression is that the conceptionof Harvard as having a new, invigorated interestin being on the cutting edge of a field like[Afro-Am] will help encourage minority scholars ofall levels and in all fields to consider cominghere," Hoyte said...
Given that Afro-Am falls under the wide umbrella of E.S., the formation of a true E.S. department could only have one outcome: Afro-Am would be completely merged into it. Of course, the University would have to create some new course and hire some new professors to balance the E.S. curriculum with other minorities, but all of them would be essentially equal in the vast expanse of E.S. With only six professors on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences actually appointed in Afro-Am (along with a slew of visiting lecturers), the University could represent every minority proportionately with...
...exactly would the E.S. major work? Well, one couldn't simply take a lot of courses that focused on Afro-Americans--that wouldn't' be a complete ethnic experience. No, each E.S. concentrator would have to take courses on Mexican-Americans, other Hispanic Americans, Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Indian-Americans and other Asian Americans as well, to say nothing of the huge number of European-Americans who have not yet been mentioned. Yes, Western-, Northern-,Central-,Eastern-, and Southern-European-Americans have just as legitimate a claim to the E.S. banner as anyone else. Where are the courses on Poles...