Word: afros
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...Only if you think there's a real dearth of scholarly merit in Afro-American [studies] (so that concentration means there's nobody any good anywhere else--which is a preposterous notion) is this field different from any other," he adds...
According to Appiah, extended collaboration among Harvard's Afro-Am department, professors has enabled a fuller understanding of each other's work...
...Many Afro-Am. professors outside of Harvard say the University's concentrated scholarship also helps to raise consciousness about the field...
Julius Nyang-oro, chair of the department of African and Afro-American studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says Harvard's work has had a positive effect on his department...
Nyang-oro says Harvard's program may also have a positive "snowballing effect" by attracting graduate students to the field who then become scholars in their own right, and by pressuring other universities to devote more resources to Afro-American studies...