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Some argue that the queer studies program does not encompass a broad enough subject to establish an entirely new field of study. But as a discipline that explores the identity of a distinct social group, queer studies is as legitimate as, say, Afro-American studies. The fact that queer studies is devoted to a group defined by its sexuality rather than its cultural and historical background does not make it less worthy of academic pursuit...
When the 10 participants in FM’s panel discussion on Afro-American studies arrived at the dimly lit Adams House Conservatory, they found only a dark, rectangular wood table instead of a more metaphorically satisfying round setting. The table may have been narrow, but the discussion was broad. Each of the 10 people that crowded around the table’s misshapen edges came from a different point on the political spectrum. Ross Douthat, the stately editor of the Harvard Salient, sat straight and tall on one end of the table, while Gerard McGeary, the clean-cut Campus...
...students were supposed to come together to talk for one hour about current issues surrounding Harvard’s Afro-American studies department, but the discussion of a single encounter between President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 quickly turned into a much larger and longer debate—encompassing such issues as the role of the intellectual in American society, the conduct of our rookie president and quasi-racism among Harvard’s upper-crust alumni...
McCarthy: One of the resentments in the Afro-American studies field—and it is a field of study—is that this department here has taken on a kind of iconographic status in the realm of academia. One of the things that disturbs me is that we talk about that history—and history changes as we incorporate questions about race and power, equality and inequality—is that the only historian in the African-American studies department is Evelyn Higginbotham. And she is never mentioned within the cohort of folks who always seem...
...don’t know how everyone else feels, but I think that the reason why there are tenured positions is for a certain level of intellectual freedom. The Afro-American studies department—or any ethnic studies department—should in general steer away from whatever Eurocentric standards may be used to apply to academia. And the existence of tenure and academic freedom is what allows more creativity and extension in these fields. If one person believes that a spoken word CD is not academia, then it is not in his position to pass judgment on someone...