Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor in the Afro-American Studies Department, said yesterday he and his lawyers are preparing for a possible lawsuit against the University...
...security officers, on Black and one white," "70 people, 60 per cent Black and 40 per cent white," etc.); the demanded creation of ethnic studies departments in Chicano, Boricuan (Puerto Rican), Latin American, Asian American and Native American Studies; and the accusations (which were later dropped) against proposed Afro-Am Professor Lawrence W. Levine...
Perhaps the most damaging effect of this overreaction has been a detraction of attention from such vital issues as the affirmative action program, the Afro-American Studies Department, and the newly-proposed Third World Center. It would be a shame if the true needs of Black students at Harvard are overlooked because of any alienation caused by this overreaction. Nathan Berkovits
Originally, when members of the Afro-American Executive Committee, formed by Dean Rosovsky to recruit scholars for the department, received the bad news, many felt ready to throw in the towel after months of hard work. Now,while waiting for Nathan I. Huggins, professor of History at Columbia University, to decide whether or not to accept their offer, committee members are beginning to bring out other alternatives and gear up for some more work...
...members of the committee, Richard B. Freeman and Orlando Paterson, say the committee will continue looking for people along the precedents it set the first time, primarily looking for historians. The ideal is two Afro-American historians based primarily in America, and one specialist in the Caribbean, Freeman added...