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...Appiah contends that the media attention given Harvard's Afro-Am. department is not unique to his field...
...areas," he writes in an e-mail, citing the prevalence with which Harvard's law and medical schools are quoted in the media. "I don't know how to decide what's fair in this context...but it is no doubt out of proportion to our real importance in Afro-American Studies as in other fields...
...Only if you think there's a real dearth of scholarly merit in Afro-American [studies] (so that concentration means there's nobody any good anywhere else--which is a preposterous notion) is this field different from any other," he adds...
According to Appiah, extended collaboration among Harvard's Afro-Am department, professors has enabled a fuller understanding of each other's work...
...Many Afro-Am. professors outside of Harvard say the University's concentrated scholarship also helps to raise consciousness about the field...