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...University may offer a tenured post to K. Anthony Appiah, a Duke philosopher and long-time colleague of Gates, who will arrive in Cambridge next fall to chair Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department...
...Although Afro-Am has yet to vote on a potential senior appointment for Appiah, the philosopher has an apparant ally in department Chair Barbara E. Johnson...
Appiah was in town yesterday and Wednesday to give two talks before members of the Afro-Am and Philosophy Departments at Harvard's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. Such lectures traditionally indicate a school's interest in a candidate. They are typically used to help faculty decide whether to make an offer...
...dismiss such stuff as the polysallabic effusions of woolly minds..But do not imagine that things are necessarily better among the elite. This is from the 1974-75 Harvard course catalogue: 'Afro-American Studies 95a..Black identity presented as a mental health model with therapeutic reactions to the ecology of white racism. Afro-American Studies 95b... Externalizing-internalizing dimensions of personality structure and behavior receive special attention...' Martin Luther King might have found a sharper way of putting...
...Afro-Atlantic syncretic narrative...