Word: afros
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...Afro-American Studies, Wilson will be the pivotal person in our social sciences component, complementing the considerable strength we have in cultural studies," Gates said. "This is a great day for Harvard, and a great day for Afro-American Studies...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. DuBois professor of the humanities and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, said in a Kennedy School press release that Wilson's appointment positions Harvard to assume a national leadership role in shaping public policy decisions regarding race and class...
According to Carnesale, the addition of Wilson further reinforces Harvard's standing as the nation's leading institution for sociology and Afro-American Studies...
...provocative title suggests, Ignatiev's project is explaining the process of this transformation along with the concomitant results for black as well as white America prior to the Civil War. In an effort to synthesize ethnic studies with Afro-American studies and labor history, he has also taken on the formidable task of examining the political, social and intellectual history which confirmed discrimination along color lines after blacks had begun to form a middle class. It's not enough that scholarship from the likes of Peter Wood and Kenneth Stampp established that slavery itself was market driven; Ignatiev also wants...
Distinguished sociologist, reknowned author and Afro-American scholar William Julius Wilson has accepted a position as Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph Nye announced yesterday...