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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process, by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"--a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Black Scholars Feared Stigma Of New Dept. | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Ford and Rosovsky both cite the Afro-American Studies Department's unimpressive early history as proof that their initial suspicions about a lack of Black scholars were right...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Black Scholars Feared Stigma Of New Dept. | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the current chair of the Afro-American Studies, says his department did not really begin to emerge as a leading academic entity until a few years...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Black Scholars Feared Stigma Of New Dept. | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says the problem was that Afro-Am was established to appease students...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Black Scholars Feared Stigma Of New Dept. | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...think the issue broke down this way: did we want the highest academic standards or did we want Afro-Am supporters to feel that they were respected...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Black Scholars Feared Stigma Of New Dept. | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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