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West returned to Princeton in 1988, and currently holds joint appointments in religion and philosophy. In addition, the scholar serves as the director of Princeton's Afro-American Studies Program, which some consider to be the best in the country...
West says Afro-American studies tend to be "ghettoized." To prevent this, he believes a three-tiered approach to Afro-American life and culture--in which history, anthropology and English are given primacy--will give the discipline a "larger scope for intellectual interaction" and make it peculiarly attuned to academia...
Before Henry Louis Gates, Jr., West was asked to direct Harvard's Afro-Am Department. But West says he refused for a variety of reasons...
Building an Afro-Am program, West says, is hard, especially in an old institution whose students and faculty have traditionally been overwhelmingly white...
...Princeton, he says, the Afro-Am department works closely with the English, history and anthropology departments...