Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take issue with Gray's statement that Morrison is "the author who almost single-handedly gave African-American women their rightful place in American literature." That view heedlessly erases the numerous African-American women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler and Carolivia Herron among them--who, as Morrison's sisters, have brilliantly contributed to contemporary African-American letters. THOMAS GRAVE Providence...
...shopping period. More than professors, more than CUE Guide numbers, it is the books that matter. Every shopping period I devote an hour to wandering the aisles, taking down course numbers with interesting books and then seeing if they fit into my schedule. Notebook in hand, I start in African-American studies and end in Social Analysis, trying not to miss this semester's sleeper hit. Last week, I came away with something more important...
...think it's important that we have as many people coming into the Boston school system as possible," Jackson said. "[African-American and Latino] kids tutoring at schools gives hope to not only the teachers, but the children...
...think you can help demystify schooling....Service now and service later--African-American people have always known that it's very important for us to give back," she continued...
Guinier will become the first female African-American professor in the 181-year history of HLS. A former Clinton nominee and former NAACP lawyer and an expert on voting rights and civil-rights law, Guinier is a welcome addition to the HLS faculty. However, her appointment is the first in what continues to be a painfully slow process of bringing professors of minority ethnicities to the Harvard University faculty...