Word: rampersad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department has not made a senior level appointment since Werner Sollors, the department's chair, was tenured in 1983. Arnold Rampersad, another Afro Am literary expert, declined an offer from the University earlier this year...
...easy task for the department to fill those empty posts. Earlier this year, Columbia literary scholar Arnold Rampersad rejected a Harvard tenure offer, citing personal reasons for remaining in New York...
...There is a problem across the country getting good scholars for Afro-American Studies. There should be more at Harvard, but there should be more every-where."--Columbia Afro-Am scholar Arnold Rampersad. He said this week he turned down a Harvard tenure offer...
...Rampersad says that the large extent to which undergraduates were involved in the discipline's formation has affected the future course of Afro-American studies. For example, Rosenblatt's course on Black fiction was brought into the curriculum as a result of lobbying efforts by students, he says...
Student activism at Harvard in those years was not always so peaceful, as Rampersad recalls, and the more militant student actions also influenced the new generation's perspective on academia. When members of Students for a Democratic Society took over University Hall in April, 1969, Rampersad was there--though he was "just going to observe...