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...exist in its midst. I can say that because I spent four years of my life on the campus. In the 1960s and 70s, we African-American students had to take over Harvard’s main administration building in order to persuade the rulers to create the first Afro-American Studies Department. Even though decades have passed, the University's controllers still think of Harvard’s black faculty and students more as servants and recipients of white tolerance than as independent scholars who have the right to shape and mold their own intellectual destinies...
West and Carrasco have repeatedly engaged in public debates over Latino and Afro-American issues, including one four years ago in Sanders Theatre...
West’s departure strikes a blow to Harvard’s Afro-American studies department, which in the past decade was transformed from a department with only one tenured professor—who was white—to a self-proclaimed “dream team” of scholars, widely considered the top black studies program in the nation...
...Cornel West’s recruitment to Harvard was crucial in establishing the department’s place of leadership in the field of Afro-American studies,” Gates, chair of the Afro-American studies department, said in his statement...
West is the second prominent member of the Afro-American studies department this semester to announce he will leave Harvard at the end of the year...