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This year, the department drew an unprecedented45 concentrators, a number Gates expects to risesteadily. Ad although the year was hardly freefrom student protests and demon-strations, foronce none of them focused of Afro...
...revived Afro-Am seems to be on a roll, andGates sounds exuberant. "It's been a gloriousyear," he says
University of Wisconsin professor Nellie Y. MCIturned down an offer to teach in Harvard' Afro-AmDepartment in 1989. The Black professoracknowledges that recruiting senior minorityfaculty can be difficult for today's universities.given a consistently small pool. But she blamesthe universities themselves for a lack offoresight in the last decade...
When Henry Louis Gates Jr. was teaching atCornell University. he was aggressively recruitedby both Princeton and Duke. After a longcourtship, the Afro-American literature specialistmade the move to Duke...
...When Afro-American Studies Department Chair HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. was teaching at Cornell University, he was aggressively recruited by both Princeton and Duke. After a long courtship, the Afro-American literature specialist made the move to Duke. But a year later, dissatisfied by the atmosphere in Durham, Gates made the jump again, this time to Harvard...