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...major issues students want to discuss is how much Africa will remain in Afro-Am. The department now seems inclined to limit its academic focus to the Black experience in America. But many students and alumni believe that real Afro-American studies cannot be divorced from the study of Africa...
SOME NEW VOICES rose up this week to question the direction in which Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department is moving. A group of alumni have formed the Committee to Support Afro-American Studies, which took out a full-page advertisement in The Harvard Crimson raising several issues of philosophy and tenure policy at Afro-Am. Also last week, members of the Black Student Association (BSA) met with Department chairman Nathan I. Huggins to ask for a greater student voice in some of these issues, and came away somewhat discouraged...
...common theme running through these two developments is a belief that the unusual circumstances under which Afro-Am was formed entitle students to a greater-than-usual voice in departmental policy. Afro-Am was a direct outgrowth of the student riots of 1969, and a lot of the discussion about forming a department came during the days when students sat in University Hall...
...Cunningham says that in the battle over Afro-Am at Harvard, the stakes are larger than just the one department. With the Reagan Administration toning down criticism of South Africa, attempts to academically sever the links of Black Americans to Africa are in part a political attempt to weaken the ties Black Americans feel to Black Africa, she added...
Glenn C. Loury, a University of Michigan economist, accepted a joint appointment to the Economics and Afro-American Studies Department last week, making him the third senior faculty member in Afro-Am and one of a handful of tenured Blacks on the Harvard faculty...