Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard-Radcliffe's "commitment" to diversity begins with its Third World recruitment program and ends with the Third World Freshperson Orientation. The University has failed to provide significant and meaningful support socially, financially, or institutionally for its Third World community. As Afro-Americans, Asian Americans, Boricuas, Chicanos, NATIVE Americans, Carribbean peoples, and international students, we have struggled to express our identities, cultures, and histories among ourselves; to share the commonality of our experiences as Third World people; and to enrich the larger community as a whole. We, ourselves, have been forced to take on the entire responsibility for the minimal...
...Third World Center offers study groups, speaker series, colloquia, and seminars on Asian American, Afro-American, Boricuan, Chicano, Native American, and Third World people's history, culture, and social issues. These enhance the academic environment of Harvard University and Harvard University's commitment ot diversity...
Along with the struggles in the area of affirmative action, the mobilization for Third World studies since the 1960s has fostered greater Third World unity. Students have supported Afro-American Studies since 1969 when Black students led a broadly-based movement of students and sympathetic faculty to establish the Afro-American Studies Department (AASD...
Fourth, Berkovitz mentions the protest of the Levine appointment of Afro-American Studies. The participants of that protest recognize that they may have been acting on the basis of some misinformation. Nonetheless, the essence of the protest is unimpeachable. Generally, Blacks called for self-determination of their own education. Specifically, they demanded a Black chair of Afro-Am, and the rehiring of Ephraim Isaac, whom the federal government has found a victim of the University's discriminatory employment practices...
...made with regard to Levine and take responsibility for it. We recognize the need to fully research our facts and substantiate our claims. We hope that in admitting our mistake we can correct our errors and remain the focus of student interest in the AASD. The Committee to Strengthen Afro-American Studies