Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the shift has become a fact, many scholars in the field are trying to explain just why it occurred and just what the effects will...
...attempting to explain the shift towards literature within Afro-American studies, scholars focus on three areas: the increasing complexity of the political issues surrounding Black Americans, the theoretical sophistication offered by feminist and deconstructionist approaches to literature and changes in the composition of academia...
...There has definitely been a shift from a predominant concern with history in Afro-American studies that peaked in the 1970s with several prize-winning books," says Harvard's Afro-Am Department Chair Werner Sollors...
...some professors caution that the shift from history to literature may move Afro-American studies away from the political agenda that created such departments in the first place, thereby making them too esoteric...
...whatever the fate of individual departments of Afro-American Studies, scholars say the dramatic recent shift in the field has given new life to Black Studies as an academic discipline. The question that remains is whether the soul of the field will be lost in the process...