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...think, when he was young, that he too could "channel mysterious, unsavory things into suburban Illinois through my guitar." And he doesn't name Jimi Hendrix, though when Morello was a student at Harvard in the mid-1980s (major: social studies), he sported an impressively expansive Hendrix-style Afro...
...deeply appreciative of the article about the Department of Afro-American Studies and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute that appeared in The Crimson ("One Man's Dream," September 18, 1996). It is always gratifying to recieve news coverage that is so well researched and well written. I would like to correct one impression, however, that your readers might have gotten about claims for the success we've enjoyed these last five years...
...Neil L. Rudenstine, and Provost Albert Carnesale, as well as Associate Dean Carol Thompson, Administrative Dean Nancy Maull, Associate Vice President Candace Corvey, Assistant Dean Josephy McCarthy, and Associate Dean Phyllis Keller, Associate Dean Anne Berman, and Associate Dean Laura Fisher, the best laid plans for the development of Afro-American Studies would have come to naught. The rebuilding of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard has been a truly collaborative project, involving both the faculty and students in Afro-American Studies and the unfailing support of the administration. Working with these individuals has made the arduous task...
...should also advise readers of The Crimson that we currently have 36 concentrators. The figure of 18 concentrators was from November 1995. --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies
...Wilson's] ideas are to make headway ... this depends on building organized progressive networks of ideas and people for a revitalized Democratic Party...," Skocpol wrote. "The Harvard Afro-Am department can be a part of that, but only a part. And this cannot be done by focusing on individuals as personal super-stars...