Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer content with peddling his noxious racial message in the U.S., Farrakhan has been on a tour of African and Middle Eastern dictatorships, providing aid and comfort to despots whose human-rights abuses and support for terrorism have earned opprobrium around the world. The purpose of his junket, Farrakhan explains, is to discover for himself whether reports in the Western press about totalitarian conditions in these benighted countries are true. His conclusion: oppressing Third World people is O.K. with me unless the oppressors happen to be white, like South Africa's former rulers...
Predictably, Farrakhan's pronouncements have provoked exactly what he was seeking: howls of outrage from the white establishment, which only serve to bolster his reputation among those African Americans who believe the best qualification for black leadership is a talent for making white folks squirm. A House subcommittee threatened to subpoena Farrakhan to determine if his deal with Libya is "traitorous." A State Department spokesman proclaimed, "It's shameful that an American citizen, much less a major religious leader in the U.S., would cavort with dictators like Gaddafi." The Justice Department warned that if reports of his pact with Gaddafi...
...most visible sign that black studies has been reborn as a vibrant academic discipline after a long period of disarray. Says Gerald Early, director of the Afro-American studies program at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri: "Harvard's efforts give these scholars a prestige that redounds on African-American studies in general...
...only trend. At Columbia, for example, there has been an Afro-American studies program--on paper anyway--since 1969. But it was not until 1993, after several student protests, that the university hired respected radical historian Manning Marable to establish and direct the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, which now boasts 60 courses and 25 faculty members with affiliations in 10 other academic departments...
Philadelphia's Temple University, meanwhile, has become the standard-bearer for the responsible wing of the Afrocentric movement under the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante. His department includes the leading Egyptologist Theophile Obenga, as well as professors of African dance and linguistics. All 35 students who have received doctorates from Temple's program easily found jobs. Says Asante: "This is the hottest degree in the country." There are now 215 black-studies programs of varying quality at colleges and universities around...