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...According to the current chair of Af Am, Thomas Professor of History and of African-American Studies Evelyn Higginbotham, the name change came about naturally in 2003 when Af Am faculty and the Committee of African Studies decided to bring a proposal for an African studies concentration—long in the works—before then-University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty...
...We’d been asking for it because the direction that African-American studies has taken in the last 15 years or so has been a direction that is broader than just the definition of African-American as black people in the United States,” Higginbotham says, citing this larger shift in academia as well as, for the first time, a receptive University administration as the reasons for the change in the department’s name and structure...
...Higginbotham is quick to point out, however, that this restructuring did not just happen overnight...
...We’ve been asking for it all along—it just wasn’t happening,” says Higginbotham...
...Irele said. “She’s ahead of anybody in this area, and she’s looking at it from a very sophisticated standpoint—not just some kind of popular, populist approach, very theoretical.” Af-Am Department Chair Evelyn B. Higginbotham and Stanford’s Department of Communications Chair James S. Fishkin could not be reached for comment last night. While the department is poised to gain two familiar faces, Af-Am studies will be losing two newly added members. Rosen Professor of Music and Professor of African and African...