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According to Molefi K. Asante, an African-American studies professor at Temple, Harvard’s department members don’t go to conferences or publish in scholarly journals devoted strictly to the field of African-American studies, opting instead to participate more frequently in mainstream academic events centered around their primary disciplines...
...argue here at Temple that African-American studies is a discipline with unique theoretical and methodological attributes," says Molefi K. Asante, Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Temple University, the largest such graduate department in the country...
Philadelphia's Temple University, meanwhile, has become the standard-bearer for the responsible wing of the Afrocentric movement under the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante. His department includes the leading Egyptologist Theophile Obenga, as well as professors of African dance and linguistics. All 35 students who have received doctorates from Temple's program easily found jobs. Says Asante: "This is the hottest degree in the country." There are now 215 black-studies programs of varying quality at colleges and universities around...
...then had a student read aloud from an article he distributed, "The Black Studies War" from the January 17 issue of the Village Voice, in which Gates claimed that in a debate, K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, "could kick Molefi...
...Molefi Kete Asante, creator of the nation's first accredited African American Studies doctoral program, defended his philosophy of Afrocentrism in a spirited 90-minute discussion with a diverse audience filing Science Center A last night...