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Participants in a panel discussion yesterday on the experience of Black women undergraduates at Harvard celebrated Henry L. Gates Jr.'s acceptance of a tenured position in the Afro-American studies department, but cautioned against optimism that he can revitalize the department singlehandedly...
...Harvard doesn't have a good track record in landing top scholars. Last year Afro-Am sought to tenure University of Wisconsin Professor Nellie Y. McKay and Princeton Religion Professors Cornel R. West '74 and Albert J. Raboteau. All three rejected Harvard's overtures...
...primary focus of the DuBois Institute is a fellowship program that brings in visiting senior and junior scholars. This year, the institute is sponsoring 17 individuals, including Gates--who is participating as a non-resident. The institute also supports conferences, working groups of scholars and the creation of Afro-American reference works...
Despite the hoopla around the possibility of a Gates appointment, some scholars are skeptical about Harvard's overall strategy for Afro-Am. Charshee Lawrence-McIntyre, a professor of English at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, says she questions the way Harvard and the nation's other top schools try to build their departments by landing one big name professor...
Still, there is strong belief that Gates will come to Harvard. It is a move that most scholars, outside of Raleigh, N.C., say would be the best, not only for Gates and Harvard, but for the whole field of Afro-American studies...