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...Afro-Am department that still counts Henry Louis ‘Skip’ Gates Jr. as it’s chair, and William Julius Wilson and Evelyn Higginbotham as stalwart members has an edge that arguably cannot be eclipsed...
Though Appiah cited personal reasons as his motivation for leaving—his permanent residence is in New York City, where his partner lives and works—his decision was viewed by some as evidence that the Afro-American studies department was a sinking ship...
...With regard to the Afro-American studies program at Harvard, we are proud of this program collectively and of each of its individual members. We would very much like to see the current faculty stay at Harvard and will compete vigorously to make this an attractive environment,” Summers said in the statement...
Gates’ announcement that he will remain in Harvard next year provides at least a temporary break in the storm clouds that have swirled around Harvard’s Afro-American studies department in the past six months...
...joins West and Appiah at Princeton, the department he helped to build over the past decade may be in serious danger. The group of Harvard professors dubbed the Afro-American studies “dream team,” might follow West in something of a mass exodus from Cambridge, some worry...