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After several years of protests, which culminated in the occupation of University Hall in 1990, the University tenured DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah...
Carby's lectures have been sponsored by the Harvard University Press and the Afro-American Studies Department...
Black Americans have long sought to integrate their culture into the national image, a struggle reflected in literature and Hollywood movies, Yale Professor Hazel Carby said yesterday in the second of three W. E. B. DuBois Lectures sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies...
...campus, largely because the number of students of color had grown significantly. Moreover, he, like Lowell before him, had to decide how to orchestrate a response to a potentially divisive social issue. In addition, he presided over efforts to make the curriculum more inclusive, through the strengthening of an Afro-American Studies Department. He set forth his views on these matters in an Open Letter on Issues of Race at Harvard and Radcliffe, where he discussed three goals of race relations work in colleges and universities: equal opportunities for students regardless of race, a welcoming atmosphere, and full interchange among...
...last years, assisted by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Bok achieved a break-through in Afro-American Studies with the appointment of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who came to Harvard from Duke to chair Afro-American Studies and to direct the W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Professor Gates' vision of these studies has brought a new dynamism to the College and faculty, engaging students of all races in the courses, lecture programs and conferences of both institutions...