Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Afro-American Studies department had one tenured faculty member...
Their choice to rebuild Afro-American Studies at Harvard was DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who took charge of the department...
Since then, Afro-American Studies at Harvard seems to have earned the academic legitimacy that it has sometimes lacked in the past: Professors and concentrators see an open, exciting and friendly department with the celebrity cache of visitors like Spike...
...some students and scholars of Afro-American studies at other schools question the department's, and Gates,' approach, which they say does not reflect all of the perspectives in the field...
Last year, both Harvard and Radcliffe Presidents Neil L. Rudenstine and Linda S. Wilson received glowing profiles in the Boston Globe. This year, there was a bit more balance in a Globe article on Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, but as indicated by the headline ("Harvard's Skip Gates; guru, griot, gaditty), there was plenty of room for sucking...