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What’s in a name? For some, the switch from a department named Afro-American Studies to one entitled African and African-American Studies in 2003 simply reflected the department’s growing focus on two separate, although necessarily intertwined, fields of study...
...According to the current chair of Af Am, Thomas Professor of History and of African-American Studies Evelyn Higginbotham, the name change came about naturally in 2003 when Af Am faculty and the Committee of African Studies decided to bring a proposal for an African studies concentration—long in the works—before then-University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty...
...We’d been asking for it because the direction that African-American studies has taken in the last 15 years or so has been a direction that is broader than just the definition of African-American as black people in the United States,” Higginbotham says, citing this larger shift in academia as well as, for the first time, a receptive University administration as the reasons for the change in the department’s name and structure...
...Quad incident has sparked letters from a number of African-American alumni writing on the Black Alumni Network list serve under the heading, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”A number of students and their parents have stated to me that policemen demanding identification cards from African-American students is reminiscent of the South African apartheid era, when blacks were routinely forced to show their ID cards to white police when they were thought to be “out of place.” Many of our Harvard Police...
...epic 1791 slave uprising that helped make Haiti the first black nation to throw off the yoke of European colonialism. It's hardly unusual that Chavez would want to promote such an anti-imperialist story - nor is it surprising that the man who will make the film is African-American Hollywood star and civil rights activist Danny Glover, a close friend of Chavez and of former left-wing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (who was overthrown and forced into exile in South Africa three years...