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...announcement last week that Lee would spend one day a week next spring teaching a class at Harvard for the Afro-American Studies Department seems a logical next step to this eclectic career. It's a nice move for Lee, who has frequently complained that his work is not given the mainstream recognition it deserves...
...nice move for Afro-Am. Lee's presence--if only for a semester--will add some spice to a department which has sorely needed it for some time. It may even convince some students to give Afro-Am a second look as a possible concentration. Henry Louis Gates Jr., who motivated this event, did the right thing...
...situation entirely to his liking when he gets here. For one thing, people of color are about as scarce on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as they are on the wall's of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. For another life will still be a little lonely over in Afro-Am, despite the arrival of Gates and the crew of new junior faculty that may be on the horizon. It is, after all, the development of a solid, permanent faculty that would best serve Afro-Am. One-semester stints with stars are nice; long-term academic commitment is better...
Forty mules and an acre? We know that there are plenty of empty offices in the Afro-Am Department building, but if Lee is planning to bring all 40 mules, where is he going to put them? Perhaps Lee might accept an appointment at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in exchange for a small donation to the "Taxonomy of Pack Animals" exhibit...
When Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. announced that he would be leaving Duke University to head Harvard's Afro-Am Department, students there joked that he was "skipping town." At the time, Stanley E. Fish, the chair of Duke's English Department--in which Gates held a joint appointment--took the matter in stride. But it looks like "skipping town syndrome" might be contagious after...