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They also said he undermined the importance of the Afro-American Studies Department by saying, “because African Americans were so central to the Civil War...perhaps it warrant[s] a separate department...
...letter, Summers reaffirmed his commitment to the Afro-American studies department...
...members of our Afro-Am department, individually and collectively, have done much to enhance education and scholarship at Harvard,” he wrote...
Currently, an ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies, headed by Professor of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, tries to help interested students find relevant courses and advisers. Though the committee’s website lists courses that fall under the ethnic studies rubric, it is a weak framework into which students with a wide variety of passions are corralled. Supporters of ethnic studies have rightfully continued to push the University to establish at least a certificate program and hope to establish fully independent departments for various ethnicities someday...
...department’s areas of specialization gain professors and other resources, they could be spun off as degree-granting committees—and eventually as their own independent departments. Such departments could use the Department of Afro-American Studies as an excellent model for the sorts of programs they should try to offer in each of the ethnicities under their purview...