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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cedric J. Robinson, chair of black studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, says Harvard's commitment to the field helps struggling departments nationwide in their fight for survival...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

According to Robinson, Harvard may be key to producing researchers in Afro-American studies, but at the moment, he says, "The important scholars are still in a large part not at Harvard...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Moreover, Robinson argues that the public intellectual has a particular and important role to play in the dissemination of African-American studies...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...concern that all of us have is that no single paradigm should dominate black studies," Robinson says. "It has happened with every discipline in the history of academia and Harvard is in great danger there...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Robinson says Wilson may be popular at Harvard because he falls within the "political mainstream" and because of the strength of his research, even if his conclusions are debatable...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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