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However unlike Kilson who has argued that Afro-American Studies should only be a joint concentration with an established discipline. Nwafor feels that a certain flexibility should be retained. In some cases, Nwafor expects that students can find all the courses they need to study a given area of Afro-American Studies within the Afro-American Studies Department. He believes that the department needs more structure so that a student will not be able to take courses on black poetry black music. African history and Afro-American History during a single term as he is able...
...memorandum. Nwafor explains that presenting only a black nationalist line can lead to the development of an "intellectual apartheid" where the department is separated from the mainstream of intellectual life in the university community Nwafor states that "the impression is distinctly conveyed that a serious tudent is best served by steering clear of the offerings of the department...
...Nwafor's view, it would be highly desirable if the department were used to encourage the presentation of a radical Marxist view. He explained that this view has been stifled at Harvard and that in order to have stimulating scholarly debate, professors possessing these view should be attracted to the Department. He cited such men as Harold Cruse, professor of Afro-American Studies at Michigan, and Herbert Aptheker, professor of History at Bryn Mawr, as examples of scholars who should be drawn to the Harvard Afro-American Studies Department...
...Academic distinction should include an intellectual commitment for the liberation of blacks and other oppressed peoples. It is necessary that we begin looking at history from the bottom up, trying to understand mass movements, rather than just examining the behavior of kings and queens." Nwafor said in an interview last week...
...Nwafor was careful to add "that it is essential that we not turn down any qualified person who applies--what we need more than anything else are scholars with first rate minds...