Word: af-am
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...from me to sully the frivolity that I’ve spent an entire academic year creating in this, my hallowed column space. Conversations about Cornel or the plight of Af-Am at Harvard are reserved for a more earnest forum. No, when talking about race-based issues in the twenty-first century, I can’t help but rant about something a bit less important, a bit more…well, glam...
...says Fred O. Smith ’04, a BSA board member. “We don’t want to lose what we do have and sacrifice it for something called ‘ethnic studies’ which may not become the powerhouse that the Af-Am department has become...
...find the fact that he thinks about Af-Am in the context of the Civil War and as the exception to the rule is rather troubling,” he said...
...been acting and working on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s next presidential campaign. It’s been participating in student protest. It’s been, and I mean this is just according to reports, that Summers questioned him about reports he heard of West missing Af-Am lectures in order to go on speaking tours and a variety of things. I mean, none of them may have been true, but I did think that if some of them were true it would be legitimate for a University president to speak to a University professor about such...
...which way, seems to have been under a lot of pressure to accommodate the faculty in certain ways. He certainly called faculty members in, had meetings with departments telling them they needed to be more patriotic. He is never above criticism for that, just as the members of the Af-Am department should never be above criticism...