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...West’s discussion of his dispute with Summers is particularly timely because tensions between Summers and the African and African-American Studies Department resurfaced recently when two Harvard Af-Am professors, Lawrence Bobo and his wife Marcyliena Morgan, announced they will leave Harvard at the end of the fall semester to take up tenured positions at Stanford. Their departure has been attributed by colleagues to the fact that Summers denied Morgan tenure at Harvard this past summer...
After Henry’s sudden death, however, the three remaining generations of Lair men (including Jason’s son Zach, played precociously by Jonah Bobo) embark on a macabre scavenger hunt to fulfill the seemingly arbitrary ash-scattering commands of Henry’s will. Their rusting VW bus barrels across the kaleidoscopic mesascapes of the Southwestern U.S., a sensitive narrative unfolding like the detailed notes they must open at each Kentucky Fried Chicken they visit...
...moment in time and offered a glimpse of what he believes is the solution to the “crisis” in African and African-American studies. With the impending, acrimonious departures of Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Marcyliena Morgan, it is time to talk frankly about the state of the field at a higher level. Taking Marable’s critiques and ideas into account, a number of challenges need to be put forth to the intellectuals...
...will be certain to invite them to job talks to be given by prospective professorial candidates throughout the year,” he said. “[But] our problem is not recruiting. Our problem is retaining,” Gates said, alluding to the departures of Bobo, Morgan and, two years ago, Cornel R. West ’74 and K. Anthony Appiah...
...disheartened by the departures, announced this past week, of Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo, who served as the department’s acting chair last year, and of his wife, Associate Professor Marcyliena Morgan, who founded and directed the Hip Hop Archive at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute...