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...university that they feel is taking a limited approach to the humanities. “So-called mainstream departments, which seem theoretically not to be ethnically-based, were thought to exclude faculty and students who were not white,” explains Professor of African and African-American Studies Biodun Jeyifo. The African and Afro-American Association of Harvard-Radcliffe Students fought for an Afro-American Studies Department in the 60s expressly so that African-American students could do exactly what Coles is doing...
...Secret of Life” with Watson, said he felt “it was part of my job...to rein [Watson] in” during the writing process. “He always has edgy views and he prides himself on jousting at political correctness.” Biodun Jeyifo, an African and African American studies professor at Harvard, said Friday that although he was vehemently against Watson’s comments, he was not surprised by them. “It’s not new,” Jeyifo said in an interview. “It?...
...leadership transition comes as Harvard expands its African Studies faculty, with African drama expert Biodun Jeyifo and musicologist V. Kofi Agawu—along with Olupona—arriving in Cambridge earlier this fall. And an associate professor of African Studies, Caroline Elkins, raised the faculty’s profile even further last year when she won a Pulitzer Prize for her study of late colonial Kenya...
...Biodun Jeyifo may have to commute a bit further than the others to assume his new position as Af-Am professor...
...Prize, you should have seen their work for what it was: medical advances for the age they lived in. After all, most of the acclaimed scientific advances today could prove to be gross errors a century from now, when our knowledge may have leaped geometrically beyond today's boundaries. BIODUN OLUSESI Lagos...
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