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Finally, in 1995, in a discussion of race and politics in the living room of Vice President Al Gore '69, Wilson told Gates that he might be ready to move. Gates quickly invited Wilson and Harvard's entire Afro-Am. department to a dinner party at his home...
Wilson is the most recent addition to Harvard's star collection of scholars in Afro-American studies. Joining him are Professor of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah; Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74, snagged from Princeton in 1995; the recently imported Lawrence D. Bobo, formerly of the University of California at Los Angeles and Visiting Lecturer on Afro-American Studies Jamaica Kincaid...
...credit Gates has received for bringing his team together, few have openly questioned if this concentration of black academia has a downside. Has Harvard been greedy in depleting Afro-Am. departments nationwide? And is the field of Afro-American studies worse...
...think there's anything unique about Afro-Am that it should be excepted from the kind of give-and-take" of other disciplines, he says. "There was nothing at all unusual or questionable about [Wilson's] decision...
Given that "Skip Gates has a piece show up in The New Yorker every 15 minutes," Harris says, Americans may believe that all the important work in Afro-American studies transpires in Cambridge...