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Gates, the chair of the Department ofAfro-American Studies, said students will choosethe texts in his Afro-Am seminars next year. Buthe said he would leap at the chance to do a"critical reading" of the Nation of lslam's book...
African-American studies does not come "naturally" to Kwame Anthony Appiah, who came to Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department last year...
Bringing Harvard once-beleaguered Department of Afro-American Studies into a new era is DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had been at Duke University for only one year when Harvard grabbed him. Bitter Duke students joked that Gates got his nickname, "Skip" because he jumped so frequently from...
Gates used his pull last year to bring in Harvard's most famous visiting faculty members, filmmakers Spike Lee, Who taught his first lecture to a packed Sanders Theater. Lee is likely to return this year to teach another, smaller course on Afro-American film...
...Spike Lee delivers the first lecture of his course, Afro-American Studies 182, "Contemporary African-American Cineman," to an audience that pack Sanders Theatre...