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...studies and chair of the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations, says in an e-mail. “Large undergraduate enrollments tend to enable departments to get more positions or a specific initiative by the faculty, such as that a few years ago in [the Department of Afro-American Studies...
...Afro-American Studies Department is a shining and powerful example of Rudenstine’s ability to revitalize a program. When Rudenstine arrived at Harvard, the department consisted of one professor and one student. As he leaves, it is the top-ranked program of its kind in the nation. The story is now legendary; at the beginning of his tenure, Rudenstine asked DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. for a list of his “dream team” of Afro-American scholars. They have now been assembled...
Rudenstine’s extraordinary commitment to the Afro-American Studies Department reflects his deep belief in the value of diversity on campus. He has spoken out publicly in favor of affirmative action, defending attention to diversity in college admissions nationwide...
Edwards, a government concentrator, said he tried to take a diverse range of classes, including English seminars, history and Afro-American studies classes...
...Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...