Word: appiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...department's academic focus is "cultural studies," a broadly defined academic approach which explores the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity in shaping such categories of identification as gender and economic status and in determining the characteristics of a group or a society, according to Appiah...
...think that Appiah and Gates...both do European studies of African people," Asante says, with Harvard's scholars seeing African people as "objects, as marginal...
...Appiah too, while offering Afrocentrist perspectives in his Afro-American Studies tutorial, says Afrocentrism in the "New York Times, sensationalistic sense, is a body of work for which I don't have a great deal of respect...
...both Patterson and Appiah say it would be unfair to dismiss all Afrocentric scholarship as unfair or illegitimate...
...Appiah agrees with that way of answering the question and says the department would have no problem tenuring someone with an Afrocentric focus if he or she were the best professor for a position...