Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhinoceros is clever if not especially profound. As the play begins, some French villagers are passing their Sunday afternoon with trivial conversation. A rhinoceros thunders through the middle of town. A second follows, and a preposterous argument ensues. Did the rhinos have one or two horns, were they African or Asian? The town logician (J. Frank Lucas) confuses the people with his circuitous syllogisms, and M. Botard (Robert Gaus) insists that the rhinos couldn't possibly exist--or if they do, they must be stooges in a capitalist plot...
...Pennsylvania invited him to do a study of the Negro in Philadelphia. After one and a half years of work he wrote The Philadelphia Negro, one of the first urban sociological studies in the world. At about the same time Harvard published his doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, as the first volume of the Harvard Historical Studies...
Another theme that entered his life in this period was an interest in the affairs of colonial Africa. In 1900 he attended a conference on African issues in London. Similar gatherings in 1911, 1919, 1921, and later, were held in Europe and at least partly organized by DuBois. These meetings, held in the capitals of Europe, began to include African leaders and were part of the beginnings of the modern emancipation of Africa. A 1945 pan-African conference in England enabled DuBois to meet such men as Nkrumah and Kenyatta. This American contact with Africa not only aided the struggling...
...Faculty Committee on Student Activities yesterday again failed to act on the constitution of the proposed Harvard Association of African and Afro-American Students. The issue has now been before the Committee for over six months...
...disputed clause says that membership shall be open to "African and Afro-American students" at Harvard and Radcliffe...