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...years as chair, Gates has orchestrated the transformation of Afro-Am from a floundering, underappreciated department to one of the nation's most dynamic. A top-notch schmoozer and recruiter, Gates has been able to attract prominent, interesting guest faculty. He and Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah have molded a curriculum strong enough to attract a powerhouse like West...
...What West will do is bring a degree of validity in terms of connections between the African community and the University, that neither Gates nor Appiah have done," said Molefi Kete Asante, who chairs the Temple University Department of African American studies...
Then, the program's fate turned for good with the arrival in 1991 of Du Bois Professor of the humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Philosophy and Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah...
Gates was promised a strong commitment to the program, and he got it: In addition to Appiah, newly appointed Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and West, he will add four more professors to the Afro-American Studies faculty over the next few years...
...Harvard has ever before been given what might be called an "intellectual memorial" by our University. The aesthetic caliber of the program was awesome, executed mainly by empathetically skillful readers of selections from DuBois' great American text--The Souls of Black Folk--especially the readings by Prof. Anthony Appiah, Dean Jeremy Knowles, and the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka...