Word: afros
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West rejected an offer from Harvard four years ago, when the Afro-American Studies Department had only one tenured professor. Professors said West's change of heart is symbolic of the department's transformation into one of the best in the country...
Since the arrival of DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrival two years ago, the department has been able to attract such national figures as filmmaker Spike Lee, visiting scholars Jamaica Kincaid and Anthony Davis...
...West] helps us expand our resources considerably in Afro-American religion and Afro-American theology," said Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann. "He is a cultural critic who draws on the traditions of the Afro-American church...to address broad public issues...
...Afro-American studies has been seeking an intellectual scholar like Cornel West for several years," Kilson said."We've landed...
Undergraduate Afro-American Studiesconcentrators also expressed their excitement overWest's acceptance...