Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry Louis Gates, the preeminent literary scholar within Afro-American studies today according to many of his colleagues, last week took the stage in Boylston Auditorium to talk about the problems of canon formation within the Afro-American literary tradition...
Another clue as to the future direction of Black studies at Harvard is the recent tenure offer to a major scholar of Black literature at Columbia...
...joint appointment with Harvard's English and Afro-Am Departments is in the works, according to professors. But Arnold Rampersad, the scholar at Columbia, may prove difficult to lure away...
Rampersad, whose recently published biography of Langston Hughes received national acclaim, is "a master scholar and is world class by any standards," according to Baker. But Baker cautions against placing Rampersad, who received his Ph.D at Harvard, in the same category with the literary theorists. "He doesn't really see the same urgency and incumbency to theorize," Baker says...
Conservative black scholar Robert Woodson argues that "people change their behavior in order to stay in Kenilworth-Parkside. It's a class-specific solution in which poor people help themselves." Woodson, whose National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise helps promote tenant management throughout the U.S., says that "the federal and state governments have spent nearly $1 trillion over the past 20 years in a largely failed effort to fight poverty. Now Kimi and others are taking it out of the hands of professionals and giving jobs to tenants...