Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILSON'S AMENDMENT failed because he could not get a significant number of white social scientists to unhesitatingly endorse the concept of joint concentrations. In the debate some white Faculty members acted as if they felt Kilson and Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, had some hidden reason for wanting required joint concentrations. Also I doubt that Patterson's and Kilson's arguments were accorded the same respect that a white faculty member's arguments would have been, despite their obvious scholarly competence...
Samuel Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, was the only white social scientist to deliver prepared remarks in favor of the Kilson amendment. Beer's endorsement was brief and qualified. He emphasized that he supported the Kilson position, but that he was not an expert Afro-American scholar. Kilson and Patterson needed a white social scientist with credentials in Afro-American Studies to speak for joint concentrations with enthusiasm and conviction. The ideal person would have been H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, who guided the Faculty Council resolution skillfully through the Faculty. But Hughes took...
...Kilson and Patterson delivered the major speeches favoring joint concentrations. They did a competent job but ran into problems when President Bok asked what they meant by a discipline. The question is a complicated one, not easily answered in a couple of sentences, and Patterson and Kilson did not handle it well. It is unlikely that their answer to Bok's questions convinced many undecided Faculty members that grounding in a discipline was necessary...
After my transfer, much I had anticipated disappeared. Dr. Patterson had decided he'd rather switch than fight as he became a newly tenured professor in the Sociology Department. Distinguished visiting professors were found an impractical substitute for permanent faculty appointments, and an unusually large number of courses have been postponed each year. These difficulties and others are dealt with in the Report of the Committee to Review the Department of Afro-American Studies. During my first semester in the department, I became increasingly aware that I would not be able to do honors work in the department. The department...
...Afro-American Studies Department proved inadequate, and since I had come to Harvard to study under Dr. Patterson in the first place, I chose to joint concentrate in Sociology. I was required to take an introductory Sociology course and a methods course. In my case, I felt these "disciplinary" courses proved to be pure punishment. I think that my time was wasted. During this period of required courses I could have supplemented my background with additional directed study or perhaps course work in other departments...