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...hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first “revolution” in this country whose challenges were shared...
...program in order to demonstrate the University’s opposition to the Vietnam War. Ten years later, when the Coalition for Awareness and Action included strengthening the Afro-American Studies Department in a list of objectives for a second student strike, the response was underwhelming. “Afro-Am?” one sophomore said in a 1979 article published in the Crimson. “For most of us, it’s just not our fight.” The perception on both sides of the racial line was that the Afro-American Studies Department...
...There is only excitement,” he says, “because Afro-Am is back. Afro-Am is black, and Afro-Am is back...
...Afro-Am is hot, baby...
...Class of 1980 approached graduation, “all but two chairs remain vacant in 77 Dunster St., the Afro-Am Department building,” The Crimson wrote in its June 5 issue...