Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Werner Sollors, Cabot professor of English and professor of Afro-American studies, occupies a unique role in the Afro-Am department because he is currently its only white member...
...April 1969, under heavy pressure from students and a very small number of faculty members, the Afro-American studies department was founded at Harvard. A first, there was only one tenured black professor in the University, Martin L. Kilson, Thomson professor of government...
Kilson says there is a common thread that unites Afro-American studies professors with their colleagues in other previously-marginalized fields...
...Afro-American studies department began attracting national attention in 1991, when Henry Louis "Skip" Gates came to Harvard as W.E.B. DuBois professor of the humanities and successfully hired several prominent scholars in the field...
Professors of Afro-American studies say that today, with the cross-listing of courses and the mounting prestige of the Afro-American studies department, they no longer feel as excluded from the rest of the university...