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Although some of the radical tervor of student involvement has diminished since the 1960s, many say the current difficulty of filling the ranks of the Afro-American Studies department is largely a legacy of the University's inability to define clearly the program's role in the initial stages of its development...
...look back at the origins of the Afro-American Studies department reveals that it was born out of protest and activism, and that there are numerous parallels between the department's nearly-continuous troubles and its controversial roots. Whether by intention or by coincidence, recent protests urging increased faculty hiring echo the activist struggles of the 1960s...
When Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield suggested at a forum last week that Harvard's Afro-American Studies department ought not exist, it may have seemed like a radical idea to the students present...
...fact, such opposition to an Afro-Am program dates back to the department's creation 20 years ago. The subsequent years have seen a constant struggle between those who have supported and those who have opposed--either actively or by casual neglect--the institutional legitimacy that a strong department lends the study of Afro-American issues...
...sense of [the Afro-American Studies concentration at Harvard] is that it has never been as good, in terms of the size of its faculty or joint appointments, as departments at other schools," says Robert L. Hall '69, now an associate professor of history at Northeastern University. Hall was an active member of the various student groups at Harvard that pushed for the formation of a department dedicated to Afro-American Studies...