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DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. places Harvard’s Afro-American studies department—which he chairs—at the pinnacle of the field today...
Despite the prominence of Harvard’s Afro-American studies department, some say its emphasis on the interdisciplinary approach, rather than the Afrocentric one, takes away from its legitimacy as a true model for the academy...
...African-American studies never saw itself as being an ivory tower discipline—it was going to be real,” says Monroe H. Little Jr., director of the Afro-American Studies Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis...
Some students in Harvard’s Afro-American studies department say they would like to see Harvard’s department take a more activist stance...
...have to have someone who is an activist—it makes the Af-Am department look legitimate, especially for black communities,” says Afro-American studies concentrator Harrel Conner ’02. “I don’t think you can write about it from a pedestal...In order to be a scholar on a topic you have to live the life, because it changes...