Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would send companies detailed questionnaires asking them how many African-Americans they hired, in what departments and at what salaries. If their responses did not satisfy Jackson, he would meet with them and demand that they change their ways, all the while threatening them with a boycott if they did not meet his demands...
...flyaway and skin-tight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...
Like his course selections and intellectualcuriosity, West's extracurricular activitiesreflect deeply rooted interests that still shapehis life. He was active in the Association ofAfricans and African-American Students and theInstitute of Politics, and also dabbled in socialcritique, writing a 1974 piece in The Crimsonexamining the race relations theories of one ofhis mentors, Thomson Professor of GovernmentMartin L. Kilson...
...West accepted a tenured position atPrinceton University as professor of religion anddirector of the school's African-American studiesprogram...
...reads student bodies really well; he knowsdemographics. Whether you're from the West or theSouth, he can communicate to you," she says. "He'smade African-American studies what it should be,when you're not marginalized. No matter who youare, black and white or other, it's relevant. Heplaces you in the context...