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...wake of the public controversy between Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, several members of the Afro-American studies department have questioned Summers’ commitment to diversity. Though Summers has repeatedly proclaimed the importance of diversity to the University’s academic mission, he should now follow those words with tangible action—by choosing a woman or a minority as the next dean...
...university might be able to make more progress in recruiting other prominent women and minorities to join the Faculty. If Summers does not choose a woman or minority, he should be sure to picks someone who expresses a strong commitment to diversity. President Neil L. Rudenstine revitalized the Afro-American studies department in the 1990s; Summers should find a new dean of the Faculty who can do the same in other long-marginalized fields...
...that isn’t what some ethnic studies advocates are calling for. Yeh argues that the Committee on Ethnic Studies should notify students of courses “in Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies,” not on the role of identity in European fiction. However, he also sees ethnic studies as examining “the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality”—categories that recommend a general approach, rather than a handful of departments divided along ethnic lines...
Friday’s events included a forum entitled “Invisibility to Commodity? Constructions of Black Women in Art and Media,” featuring Emmy Award Winner and Academy Award nominee Callie Crossley and Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham...
Isaac J. Weiler ’02 is an Afro-American Studies concentrator affiliated with Pforzhiemer House. He is president of the Black Men’s Forum...