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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, professor of Afro-American studies and of history, is taking the semester off to recover from recent surgery. Other department officials have picked up her teaching and administrative duties...
...professors from the Afro-American studies department were also named University Professors. Cornel R. West '74 received the first Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship and William Julius Wilson was named the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
Gates, a best-selling author and director of Harvard's W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, "is one of the nation's leading black intellectuals," Turner said. One of his current projects is the completion of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of black culture and history that will be published in CD-ROM form in mid-January and in book form next September...
...This is the first complete encyclopedia about the entire black world," Gates said. "[For me to win a medal] says there's a growing acceptance of Afro-American studies...
Finally, to Mansfield's assertion that Harvard is too P.C.: We disagree. Students and Faculty are for the most part liberal, and many are genuinely interested in areas such as Afro-American Studies. But we do not see a crazed community in which people are afraid to share their views. We do not see an administration bowing to liberal pressure at the expense of conservative ideas...