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Nevertheless, non-concentrators will have a hard time seeing Gates, who is teaching a graduate seminar and an Afro-Am tutorial, or the department's other high-profile catch, Spike Lee, whose class is limited to 50 with preference given to Afro-Am concentrators...
...addition to chairing the department, Gates is the director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and is the editor of countless research projects. The Afro-Am chair says that all those committments mean that he regularly works 12-hour days...
Gates is making this commitment because, he says, he is responsibility not just to Harvard but to the study of Afro-American culture everywhere. My main responsibility is to ensure the academic integrity of our field," says Gates...
That means speaking out against voices that say that only Blacks can study Afro-American studies and against people who ignore the American in "African-American," he says...
...Anthony Appia accepted a tenured position in the Afro-American Studies Department. Appia, whose scholarship is in philosophy and literature, has been a faithful right-hand person to new Afro-Am chair Henry L. Gates, Jr. He and Gates were friends in college and have since taught together at Yale, Cornell and Duke...