Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman acknowledges that her "first priorities are Afro-American subjects" and that she "has to recognize that this is an Afro-American Studies department." Citing budgetary considerations that are determined by the University, Southern says that the sixmember faculty quota of Afro makes the hiring of an expert African historian "a luxury for me." Southern adds that the present Afro faculty includes two Africans--J. Mutero Chirenje, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, and Chidi U.E. Ikonne, instructor in Afro-American Studies--and that Chirenje specializes in African literature...
Concentrators complain of a feeling of impotence as they witness the emergence of such trends, saying that the absence of fulltime tenured faculty members in Afro--coupled with Southern's alleged refusal to formally meet with students--deny concentrators the kind of access to the depart- ment's decision making process as mandated in Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years...
...matters stand now, the department lacks a single full-time tenured faculty member who is wholly within Afro. Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies, is presently semi-retired and teaches only during one semester of each academic year. Southern holds tenure in the Music Department as well as Afro; she is a musicologist by training, and she was nominated by the Music Department for a joint appointment in Afro. The April 22, 1969, Faculty vote that established the department called for the tenuring of two full-time faculty members in Afro. The 1972 McCree Report on the department...
...Southern's three-year term as chairman of Afro is due to expire in 1979, and the appointment of her successor may hint at the course that the department will chart in the 1980s. The alleged "Americo-centric" direction of Afro stands little chance of being reversed in two years, as the steady exodus of pan-Africanists like Isaac from Harvard and Afro shows few signs of stopping. The Afro offices at 77 Dunster will probably preserve the outward stability of the department for the foreseeable future, but that appearance remains a deceptive one, and conditions in Afro may once...
Richard W. Southern, medieval scholar, author, and president of St. John's College, Oxford, England--Doctor of Laws...