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...judge in her hometown about her aspirations to be a lawyer last year, and the judge asked her what her concentration was. Dawkins told the judge, "Afro-American Studies," at which point he asked her why she, a Black American, would choose a concentration that he considered to be redundant. Today, Dawkins has added on Government to her Afro-American concentration after often having to defend the legitimacy of a degree in Afro...
School Considers Afro-Am. Concentration...
...post civil-rights and post-segregationist environment, there is less a driving force and more a search for collective cohesion and identity among Blacks," says the chairman of the Afro-Am Department...
...Because of the attention that was called to the plight of the Afro-Am Studies Department, the administration really made a serious effort to recruit more Black faculty." From that effort, she says, came Professor Nathan Huggins...
Nonetheless, Afro-Am today does not enjoy the same popularity it once did. When Southern leaves, the department will have only two senior faculty members and fewer than 10 concentrators. When Southern came to Harvard, she says, there were many more Blacks on the faculty. "They were junior faculty, but, nevertheless, it suggested that certainly there was something to be said for the development of our program in Afro-American history and culture, and now we have so few Blacks. We kind of rattle around...