Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never would have known of the opportunity if he hadn't received an e-mail notifying members of collegiate African student associations that Spielberg was seeking young West African males for a film on the 1839 mutiny and subsequent capture of a slave ship, La Amistad...
...break came when they asked the line of actors to read in an African language. Ashong was the only one who spoke fluently. "Everyone else was like no, I don't speak, but I have a lot of African friends, and it doesn't matter because I'm an actor. I can insert myself into the role...
Harvard's gain is another university's loss, and numerous African-American studies departments have been losing of late. Yet scholars at the schools left behind say they are not angry at Harvard for snatching their biggest names...
Arnold Rampersad, who stepped into West's shoes as director of Princeton's African-American Studies committee, says an institution cannot be blamed for trying to attract top faculty...
West was treasured at Princeton, Rampersad says, personally teaching more than half of African-American studies students...