Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world is very much shaped by the fellow fourth graders who would chant in unison that I was a "terrorist" or the French airport officials who detained me for over two hours (even though I was born and raised in America) because my last name sounded North African, just as a black student would be shaped by his encounters with racist police officers or a Jewish student would be shaped by anti-Jewish incidents...
Indeed, if we lose our sense of a broader humanity, we are only inviting a repeat performance of some of the most horrendous chapters of history. And as a fellow Semite (albeit from a North African and non-Jewish background), I do not have to remind Mr. Kaufman of all of the horrors that our peoples have both been made to suffer because of an over-identification with groups in the Crusades or the Inquisition. I am sure Mr. Kaufman knows as much, and I am not implying that he believes otherwise--but I do believe that he has understressed...
...Role models for African-American children are not in Cambridge public schools, but we have quite a few people of color on staff," Graham says, adding that this makes the school more attractive to professional minority families...
Jones answered student questions, which focused on his jazz background. He also examined the roots and current forms of African-American music...
Afro-Am 154 is taught by Dwight D. Andrews, an Emory University professor who is the current Jones visiting associate professor of African-American music. Andrews is also teaching a class on the history of jazz this term, and composed the music for August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," now a Broadway...