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...While we applaud the hiring of West, we have a hard time seeing how his appointment will serve the Harvard student who is interested in Asian-American history or Native-American literature. We still feel that there is much room for improvement, particularly in fields outside Afro-American Studies and for other underrepresented minorities. We would like to see "remarkable" appointments similar to West's of Latino or Native-American senior faculty, of which there are currently none at the University. Finally, the editorial's claim that as a result of last year's protests, "this year Harvard is offering...
...subject that is generally seen as characteristic of literary postmodernity. The "marginal" writers chosen Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ralph Ellison-present a rather motley collection. When I spoke to Harper, and Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Languages and Afro-American Studies here at Harvard, earlier this week, he explained that the subjects of his analysis had indeed been cosen 'without rhyme or reason." "These authors compelled me ," he enthused. "Intuitively, there must be some reason...
...applaud the vigorous efforts of our Afro-American Studies department in recruitment of senior faculty; yet, I'd like to draw the distinction between progress due to amazing individuals within the Afro-Am department and progress due to a coherent administration policy or effort. Admirable success in a single department does not prove that the system and process of senior faculty hiring--as well as that for administrative positions--is open and equitable...
...congratulating our exemplary Afro-Am department, I hope I haven't understand the concerns of many students. Namely, there are zero Mexican-American or Puerto Rican-American senior faculty (a critical distinction to make here, as well as for Asian-American tenured professors, is that between ethnic American scholars and elite foreign scholars), zero Native American senior faculty and a gaping hole in our curriculum with regard to permanent ethnic studies courses...
Last year, the University achieved a nationally recognized coup by recruiting Professor of Afro-American Studies and African-American Religious History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham from the University of Pennsylvania. Higginbotham is on leave and not teaching courses during the current school years, but she is on staff and scheduled to teach in the fall...