Word: appiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Appiah, who was appointed by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, said he currently has no specific agenda but expects the committee to serve in an advisory role...
Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah said yesterday that he will chair the College's new student-faculty committee on race relations...
...what he calls "a big project which will probably take a decade," Appiah plans to "think through the way in which idealization works in structuring other kinds of theory." He's also preparing several essays on contemporary Afrocentrists...
More immediately, Appiah will be handling much of the restructuring of the Afro-American Studies Department. Next year, he will teach Afro-Am 10, a new course which will introduce the major works and issues of the field. In addition, the department will offer two smaller required courses, 11 and 12, with annually changing topics...
...Appiah says the new courses, which will replace the sophomore and junior tutorials, are an attempt to accommodate concentrators who decided to enter the department late. The increasing numbers in the recently rejuvenated department seem to confirm his vision of Afro-American studies as a subject which appeals across disciplinary and cultural lines...