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History Professor Caroline Elkins was awarded tenure on July 1 after eight years as an associate professor of African Studies at Harvard. Elkins said she first discovered a “passion” for African history when she took a course on the subject as an undergraduate at Princeton. She said she is drawn to the subject because it provides an “intellectual challenge” and involves “thinking outside the box” to understand the “confluence of so many areas of history...
...probably why the annual Lake of Stars, www.lakeofstars.org, held on the palm-fringed beaches of Lake Malawi, is so darned enjoyable. A world away from muddy fields and hour-long queues for overpriced fast food, the five-year-old Lake of Stars offers a magical combination of world and African music, top international DJs, scenic beauty, philanthropy (portions of festival proceeds are used to fund development projects in the immediate area) and intimacy - the crowd typically numbers just 3,000 lucky travelers, expats and locals...
...there is one thing that distinguishes this 20-year-old from her peers, something that has made her the unwitting focus of an intense public debate about what exactly it means to be Chinese: the color of her skin. Born to a Chinese mother and an African-American father whom she has never met, the theater student rocketed into the public consciousness last month when she took part in an American Idol-esque TV show, Go! Oriental Angel. (See pictures of modern Shanghai...
...children of that first generation of mixed-race marriages come of age, their moves to gain acceptance in society - like Lou's participation in the TV show - have exposed a deep-running vein of xenophobia in Chinese society. Last year, Ding Hui, a young man of African-Chinese ethnicity, caused a stir when he was called up to the national volleyball team, prompting much soul-searching about whether the athlete should be allowed to represent China alongside pure-blooded Chinese competitors. Eventually, Ding Hui did go on to play for the national team...
Senator Kennedy had the economic and political clout to challenge the powerful on behalf of the powerless and did so many times. To me, an African American who grew up in the South and was inspired--at times emboldened--by the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kennedys, he did even more. Like King and like his brothers John and Robert, Ted spoke truth to power, but when black folk in the South who thought themselves powerless were moved to action by his message, he spoke truth to impotence and generated power. David L. Evans, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...