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"The Afro-American Studies Department is more of a skeleton than anything else," says Henry, an English and American Literature concentrator who says he has not taken any Afro-Am courses. "The Afro-American Studies Department has fewer faculty members now that when it was first created. It has fewer...
Aside from tutorials, the department offered seven courses during the past year--an improvement, albeit a small one, from the three it offered the previous year.
But DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, one of the two senior members in the department and its former chair, says Afro-Am suffers more from an image problem--fed by negative press and BSA politics--than from structural flaws.
"Outside the department, BSA has its own agenda, and it needs issues, and Afro-American Studies Department is an issue," says Huggins. "It's a standard, regular issue for it. I haven't any problem with that. If you're a student organization you need to have some issues."
Huggins says much of the criticism directed against the department is misguided. "I would say right now, without any sense of equivocation, in terms of departments, the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard is better at this time than any other department or any other program in the country," Huggins...