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Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, resigned yesterday from the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies (AAS).
THE COMMITTEE of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) has come a long way since its inception as a "radical caucus" within the Association of Asian Scholars (AAS) annual convention a year ago in Philadelphia. At that time the caucus of 500 scholars in Asian Studies "came together in opposition to the...
This year CCAS held its own national conference at the time of the AAS meeting (March 28 to March 30), in a nearby Boston hotel. Its purpose was two-fold: to re-evaluate America's role in Asia and the scholarship which has justified it, and to consolidate CCAS as...
One of the original concerns of the CCAS organizers was the "irrelevance" of AAS panel topics--the Vietnam War and Communist China, for example, were conspicuously absent on the AAS program. In contrast, the two or three hundred people who attended the CCAS conference discussed such topics as "People's...
Not only the panel topics but the whole spirit of the CCAS conference was in marked contrast to that of the AAS meetings. The CCAS members sought to identify themselves with the people they were studying, and to join forces with the other movements in their society working for social...