Word: afros
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...Another Rudenstine legacy: the Afro-American Studies Dream Team. Rudenstine also counts its recruitment among his proudest accomplishments. When he arrived, the department was struggling with only one tenured professor and one concentrator...
...Rudenstine began his intensive recruiting and cultivation efforts for Harvard’s Afro- American Studies Department months before he set foot in his Mass. Hall office...
...practically Harvard legend. Rudenstine handed Gates a blank sheet of legal paper. Gates made a list that included Lani Guinier, Cornel West, William Julius Wilson, the Higginbothams, Lawrence D. Bobo and Suzanne P. Blier. A decade later, he notes, they’re all at Harvard, and the Afro-American Studies program—ranked number one in the nation—is planning to accept its first class of doctoral candidates this fall...
...Black people have a saying that he or she not only talks the talk, but walks the walk,” Gates explains. “And no one has walked the walk more boldly in terms of diversity and affirmative action and Afro-American studies than Neil Rudenstine...
...President Rudenstine was very focused on leaving this as one of his legacies in good shape, and he has done that, both in recruiting my colleagues and providing resources for research at the Institute,” Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah says...