Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that I would have said no had nothing to do with me being Black," Kilson says. "I don't think there was much problem there because most of the appointments we were offering were joint appointments between Afro-Am and another, more established department...
Hall, who was one of the three student members of the faculty search, committee for Afro-American Studies, points to a failed attempt to court University of Chicago historian John Hope Franklin as an example of this trend...
...while Afro-Am's poor record in its early years remains undisputed, there is some question as to whether the problem was a dearth of potential faculty or Harvard's lack of commitment of finding them...
Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson, who was the first Black to be tenured at Harvard and was a member of the Rosovsky committee, says that while he disagreed with the proposal for a full-scale department, the problems with Afro-Am had nothing to do with Black professors being unwilling to join...
During the same time period that Harvard searched in vain, Yale was able to construct a prominent Afro-American Studies department, Hall says. In fact, three pillars of Harvard's now-renowned Afro-American studies department were colleagues at Yale decades ago: Gates, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of philosophy K. Anthony Appiah and Cornel R. West...