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Redd addressed curricular diversity, recounting the history of the Afro-American studies department and charging University President Lawrence H. Summers with “mediocre support of diversity...
...result, it is clear that Summers needs to do more than tolerate the existence of the Afro-American studies department if he is serious about his commitment to diversity. If he wants to show the Harvard community that he was not just crying crocodile tears at West’s departure, he must take positive steps toward expanding the university’s commitment to the academic study of race and ethnicity. Strengthening the existing African-American studies department and women’s studies committee, establishing departments in Latino, ethnic and queer studies and appointing someone with a demonstrated...
...opposition. According to Maribel Hernandez ’04, president of RAZA, Summers dismissed the prospective departments as no more than programs that could promote individuals studying their own ethnicity. When Latino studies advocates pointed out to Summers that the department they were demanding is no different from the Afro-American studies department in that respect, Summers allegedly referred to that department as an outermost case that perhaps warranted a separate department...
Perhaps? The Afro-American studies department has been rated the best in the country and is one of the shining jewels in Harvard’s academic crown. The “dream team” of Af-Am professors added both to Harvard’s prestige and to its ability to attract the best and brightest to work and study here. Yet even before the recent controversies surrounding Summers’s dispute with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, there was concern about his commitment to diversity from among several senior faculty members...
West’s widely publicized fallout with Summers, coupled with a series of other incidents, has lit a fire in the collective heart of students and started a real campus-wide conversation. Not since the birth of the Afro-American studies department—which followed the University Hall takeover of 1969—has the University occupied such a prominent place on the national stage because of minority issues. Everybody is talking about West. Everybody has an opinion...