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Academic courses may affect some students' ideas--Lewis reports that Afro-Am 175, "Race and Science," strengthened his conviction that race is merely a social construct--but may have little utility in convincing everyone of the benefits of an identity-sensitive university...

Author: By Dante E. A. ramos, | Title: Despite Battles, Many Seniors Still Unaffected | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...There are few calm discussions of sentence structure in Afro-Am," adds Glover. "There's always going to be an issue of social or historical context...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, Rebecca M. Wand, and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Afro-Am Studies Grows Under New Leadership | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...Last year when [City University of New York Professor Leonard] Jeffries came the faculty of the Afro-Am department didn't' come out one way or another,' says Rashida K. LaLande '95. "It never occured to us at the time, but looking back it would have been nice to have some support from the faculty...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, Rebecca M. Wand, and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Afro-Am Studies Grows Under New Leadership | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...Afro-Am is not political in the sense that we're all being indoctrinated," Smith says. "In Afro-Am, voices and perspectives are political...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, Rebecca M. Wand, and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Afro-Am Studies Grows Under New Leadership | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...Black concentrators are very discouraged with the department because in an attempt to make Afro-Am a valid study or concentration they get as many non-African Americans concetrators, which is well and good but in the process they have ignored many of the African American concentrators," Ellis says. "The department heads feel that the only way it would be valid is if non-African-American students were interested...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, Rebecca M. Wand, and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Afro-Am Studies Grows Under New Leadership | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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