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Ending a year of uncertainty over the future of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. announced today that he will remain at the University...
Gates explained that he aims to recruit five new professors, building on the recent appointments of Michael C. Dawson in Government and Afro-American Studies and Evelynn Hammonds in Afro-American studies and History of Science...
Gates said West’s conflict with University President Lawrence H. Summers made him question the University’s committment to Afro-American Studies, a doubt which he said has since been put to rest...
Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and English and American Literature and Language Glenda R. Carpio discussed the oft-criticized Lolita, saying that “close reading needs to take place in the context of an entire book...
Daniel, an honors Afro-American Studies concentrator, teaches full-time at the King Open Middle School. She arrives at around 8 each morning, and doesn’t leave until 3:30. With assistance from her mentor teacher, she leads her two classes through a combined curriculum of English and History—right now, they are reading The Joy Luck Club and learning about Chinese culture simultaneously...