{"value"=>"<p>The Concentrators subseries is divided into General and Students files. The General files relate to procedures and requirements for majoring in Afro- American studies, activities and statements of the Afro-American Studies Concentrators (pertaining in particular to the search for tenure in the department), and to a 197 5 Alumni Weekend hosted by the students. A file for the class of 197 2 documents the department's early successes, several of its students having graduated with honors.</p> <p>Guinier kept a separate file for his recurring clashes with Martin Kilson, an African-American professor of Government at Harvard who was particularly hostile to Guinier for what was alleged as a lack \"scholarly attainment\", and to the department for its \"poor intellectual quality\". Kilson was a vehement critic of \"black separatism and militancy\" which he characterized as \"anti-intellectual and anti-achievement in orientation\", and of the increased recruitment of poor blacks in the late 1960s which, he said, brought a lower class lifestyle to Harvard and other superior schools across the country, thereby denying access to qualified middle-class black students. What became known as the <em render=\"underline\">Kilson-Guinier Debate</em> erupted in the press in 1973 with the publication of a Kilson article, \"The Black Experience at Harvard\" in the <em render=\"underline\">Harvard Bulletin</em> and the <em render=\"underline\">New York Times Magazine</em>, followed by several articles and letters to the editor by Guinier, Kilson and others. In addition to these documents, the Kilson-Guinier subseries includes the transcript of a television debate between the two, letters to Kilson and Guinier and their replies, articles criticizing Kilson's outlook on education, and student papers and projects inspired by the controversy. Also included is an essay \"On Martin Kilson and Others\" written by Addison Gayle in response to a negative address by Kilson on the \"Black Aesthetic\". Biographical materials and other articles by Kilson, found in other parts of the collection, have been added to this subseries. Letters and articles by Orlando Patterson, another outspoken critic of the Afro-American Studies Department and its chairman, are located in the Faculty and Concentrators subseries.</p>"}