Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming defeat at the polls last week, and the prime minister himself was barely able to hold on to his parliamentary seat. Students and professors at Harvard expressed their dismay at Manley's fall. "It's going to set Jamaica back 10 years," Selwyn Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, said. And Karen Alphonse '83, a Jamaican, concurred. "Manley has raised Jamaica's political consciousness. You cannot get up now and tell Jamaicans they cannot be satisfied," she said...
Perhaps the University has been reluctant to take action because of the failure during the early '70s of the Afro-American Cultural Center. Established in the wake of student protest, the Afro-Am center foundered and died, because administrators hesitated to make a large-scale financial commitment. When students lost their initial enthusiasm and the center fell on hard times, the incentives for maintaining it were fatally weakened...
...There are a lot of ugly, unpleasant racists on campus," one senior said yesterday, adding that BSU demands for more tenured Black faculty and for an Afro-American major have caused a certain amount of tension here...
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, addressing the rally--which included members of all Third World organizations in the University--in front of Massachusetts Hall, labelled Harvard "a racist institution" and then responded to a heckler by saying, "The function of a racist institution is to train people like...
Gomes' preliminary report also states, "Our own past history with the Afro-American Cultural Center suggests that more rather than less administrative involvement with the project would be helpful, always mindful of the delicate line between involvement and control...