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Julius Nyang-oro, chair of the department of African and Afro-American studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says Harvard's work has had a positive effect on his department...
Nyang-oro says Harvard's program may also have a positive "snowballing effect" by attracting graduate students to the field who then become scholars in their own right, and by pressuring other universities to devote more resources to Afro-American studies...
According to Robinson, Harvard may be key to producing researchers in Afro-American studies, but at the moment, he says, "The important scholars are still in a large part not at Harvard...
Some professors say that in its public acclaim, the Harvard department threatens to elevate one paradigm of inquiry into Afro-American studies above all others...
Harris, the Washington professor, says he recognizes the benefits Harvard's well-known Afro-American studies department may hold for other departments nationwide, notably in making the field more popular among students...