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When Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. turned down offers to leave for Princeton last fall, the entire campus breathed easier—thrilled by the news that one of the most respected members of Harvard’s community would remain with us. And now, after 12 years of painstakingly building the Department of Afro-American Studies from scratch, an integral part of Gates’ vision for that trailblazing department finally will be realized. Last week’s announcement that, pending approval from the full Faculty...
About 200 people gathered at Boston’s Museum of Afro-American History for the event, sponsored by the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW...
...directed against the student herself, and more broadly, against Muslims and Iraqis. Several days later, Yalies holding a silent vigil in memory of Iraqi civilian casualties were spit upon and harassed at residential college dining halls. Then came more affronts: an obscene and threatening message was left outside the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, where many Muslim student groups meet...
...only the amenability of the administration that has led to the success of the proposal: changes within the fields of African and Afro-American studies make this an opportune time for the initiative...
Drawing from several fields at the University—including sociology, anthropology, economics, art history and music—the interdisciplinary concentration will probably be divided into three subfields, Afro-American studies, African studies and some combination...