Word: af
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...wish to divest racial thinking of its power—while ignoring the very real and very present societal and emotional consequences of the subject at hand. However, this is often the very thought process that contributes to the type of barefaced insensitivity that was on display in my Af-Am class...
...Malveaux ’89 and President of Entertainment for BET Reginald A. Hudlin ’83 showing clips for a discussion of “Representations of Blacks in the Media.” Calling the weekend a “great minds movement,” Af-Am Department Chair Evelyn B. Higginbotham said that the weekend served “as a collective for discussing the issues that are current in our world today for African American people and people of African descent.” At a bustling black-tie affair in the Cambridge Marriott...
Amidst rumors that black studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74 may return to Harvard, members of the African and African American Studies Department said yesterday that the issue has been a topic of discussion among faculty.Jayne Professor of Government and of Af-Am Jennifer L. Hochschild said last night that West’s possible homecoming had been in talks since the spring. “We’ve been talking about this on and off in the past six months...that it might come up in the fall,” she said. The department...
...brilliant people who are in our field.” “I would be disingenuous if I told you that I don’t have some nostalgia,” Higginbotham said, referring to the days when she worked alongside Appiah and West in Af-Am’s Barker Center headquarters, “but I can also happily say that we have a new team.”And it seems as though Harvard is not the only one looking forward. Citing the words of the committee in her statement introduction, President Tilghman boldly declared...
...Gates’ first hires, Higginbotham arrived while he was expanding what would become widely known as the most prestigious Af-Am program...