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Thomas Cripps will return as a visitingprofessor to teach a survey of Afro-American film,according to Professor of Afro-American Studies K.Anthony Appiah, the Afro-Am head tutor. Crippstaught "The Social History of African-Americans inAmerican Film" last fall...
...Appiah said he hopes to formalize Lee'sappointment in time to list the class in the1992-93 course catalog...
When he and Appiah taught together at Cornell,Gates says, they brought nine Black scholars tothe faculty. "If we could recruit Black people toIthaca, New York, we figured recruiting Blackpeople to Boston would not be so difficult," Gatessays...
Many of the Black professors Harvard willrecruit, Appiah says, come from places like Durhamand Ithaca, or from New Haven, Conn., which hasracial problems of its own. They will arrive inBoston accustomed to racial tension and used toseeing few other Black faces...
...they're going to be coming fromsomewhere with no problems," Appiah says. "They'renot starting from scratch."Crimson File PhotoHENRY LOUIS GATES...