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