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African-American studies does not come "naturally" to Kwame Anthony Appiah, who came to Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department last year...
...scholar who deflates conventional notions of racial, ethnic and cultural categorizations, Appiah's' life story appropriately puts just those notions into question. Born in London, he spent his childhood in the West African nation of Ghana. His mother is English, his father a Ghanian lawyer who was influential in his country's independence movement. Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II, the King of the Asante tribe, is his uncle, and his maternal grandparents are a titled couple from Gloucestershire...
...Appiah speaks softly in a British accent, and is immensely understated about his background and his achievements. Most of the time he talks at a languid, thoughtful pace, but occasionally the words rush out in the sort of complex sentences most people can only compose with pen and paper in hand. Talking about his years as an undergraduate at Cambridge University, he shows a dry, self-deprecating sense of humor...
Gates and Appiah doubt, however, that theAfro-Am department will disappear anytime soon...
...reason why Afro-American studies exists,"Appiah says, "is that historically,African-American literature, history and culturewere...studied in ways that reflected racistcultural assumptions." Appiah predicts that in thefuture, other ethnic studies will be increasinglyrepresented...