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While at Harvard, the fellows research projects of their choice. The intent of the program is to give scholars the chance to pursue their interests and talk with others in the field of Afro-American studies...
With her fellowship this year from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, she will be able to write a memoir about her experiences...
Bringing Harvard's once-beleaguered Department of Afro-American Studies into a new era is DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had been at Duke University for only one year when Harvard grabbed him. Bitter Duke students joked that Gates got his nickname, "Skip," because he jumped so frequently from...
...goal in mind. "I came to Harvard to doAfro-Am because that's all I wanted to study.There never seemed to be another choice that mighthave rivaled it. I applied to colleges to dothat." Now, she adds women's fiction and creativewriting to her list of her academic interestswithin Afro-American Studies. "[The concentration]taught me what I wanted to know that you can'tlearn in school before college...
Like most people, Carter defines her time atHarvard by the things she has chosen to do here.She looks back happily on her time at the Co-op,in the Afro-Am department, working at Schlesingerand participating in the tutoring program inDorchester. "The Co-op made it possible to stay atHarvard until the end," she says. It most closeslyresembled the warm nurturing environment in whichshe had grown...