Word: appiah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even if Harvard were found to have had some link to slavery, reparations might still not be a productive way to address the history of blacks in the United States, said Carswell Professor of Afro-American and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...most complex issues that has arisen recently is your relationship with the Afro-American studies department. Professor Anthony Appiah ran off to Princeton, and it seems everyone’s willing to follow. It looked like you were impotent and unable to build a bridge to the black academic community...
...inquiry rather than the people who are doing the inquiring. I think the first priority should be about method and the kinds of things we are studying. The fact that everyone outside of Harvard is talking about Cornel West and Larry Summers and whether Skip Gates and Kwame Appiah are going to go with Cornel and not about what Higginbotham or Tommie Shelby is doing or about Jamaica Kincaid is emblematic of a larger misfocus...
...actually don’t know what went on in the conversation. So I think it’s unfair to take, really, the way The New York Times and the Boston Globe have framed it and say that there’s also some great tension. Anthony Appiah left because he’d been planning it. I think President Summers got a real raw deal from the Boston Globe, from The New York Times. They wanted the story. They created...
...Although Appiah will leave Harvard for Princeton this spring, he said he does not expect his departure to affect the progress...