Word: afros
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...Ethnic studies backers point to the Department of Afro-American Studies as a model of the academic vitality they want to create...
...Huang suggests the ethnic studies push has encountered less success than the Afro-American studies department because of the two disciplines' different histories...
...Afro-American [studies] department has been very successful because of the long history of the racial conflict between the whites and the blacks," he says. "On the other hand, my field [Asian-American literature] is still a very new field. It's 20 or 30 years old at most, so it still needs time to mature and gain momentum and visibility...
...Afro-American studies, which was created in part in response to student demands, seems to represent the height of what students' racially informed activism can accomplish...
...James L. Matory '82, a recently tenured professor of anthropology and Afro-American studies, says Gates not only resurrected the department but made it "the jewel in Harvard's crown...