Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kilson, who helped organize Social Sciences 5, "The Afro-American Experience," is currently a member of the Standing Committee on African Studies...
...author of Political Change in a West African State (1966), a study of political development in Sierra Leone, and wrote, with Rupert Emerson. The Political Awakening of Africa (1965). His latest work, to be published soon as Chiefs, Peasants, and Politicians, explores grass-roots politics in Ghana...
...wife is a Research Fellow in African Ethnology at Harvard and a Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute...
Edward S. Mason, acting dean of the Faculty, yesterday released the names of the six student members of the committee. The students--three from potential AAS concentrators and three from the Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro)--were added to the committee by a Faculty vote of April...
...Cultural Mafia, proving the African link is less important than promoting greater understanding and tolerance of the special qualities of ghetto culture. Baratz, for example, argues that such well-intentioned programs as Head Start are doomed to failure because they implicitly seek to rob the Negro child of his uniqueness and absorb him into an alien white culture. "We have to meet the Negro in his world," he says, "explore his ghetto for its strengths, and understand the processes whereby this seemingly wicked environment sustains a viable culture." White America must not only learn to appreciate that culture, he argues...