Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afro-American Studies Department spent another year trying to shed its reputation as a trouble spot...
...cent of total) admitted to the class of 1983: though there was no decline in the number of applicants to the Class of '84, the Harvard College admissions office has seen fit to admit but 175 Black students to that year's class. Harvard's historical attacks on the Afro-American Studies Department, the DuBois research institute, and the Afro-American Cultural Center are three additional areas of harrassment and insensitivity to Black students. The denial of tenure to outstanding scholar and great friend of Black students Ephraim Isaac is another. If I wrote of the harrassment of Black students...
...over-emphasized the unavilability of qualified Blacks," Eugene J. Green '80, former president of the BSA. said last week, adding. "The work of the Afro-American Studies Department's executive committee is a good example of what Harvard can do--after one year they came up with three names...
...academic position. President Bok's last open letter to the Harvard community says, "Efforts to impose political, economic, or moral judgements are likely to distort the appointment process." Every candidate for an academic position, according to Bok, should be considered solely on the basis of his scholarship. Given Afro's need for scholars and Genovese's credentials, this hardly seems the place to make exceptions to this University policy...
Having offered three historians positions in April, it is very strange that the committee now does not want a second one. Nathan I. Huggins, the only one who accepted the offer and the newly appointed chairman of Afro-Am, says two historians in the department would be "redundant." Huggins, however, is a generalist. Afro-Am needs specialists in various periods--one of them being slavery. This was one of the committee's original aims. We see no need for a change...