Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Afro-American Artists Association holds its annual outdoor exhibit, Sunday in the Park, a day early this year in Horatio Harris Park, at Townsend Street and Walnut Avenue, Roxbury. Hours Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Rain dates, August 14-15. Telephone...
...contrast, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology Roderick Harrison '70 says his somewhat later generation of activists did not all pursue their ideals after graduation. "I get a sense today of very different groups who went different ways," he says, charging that many quickly abandoned their commitments to social change, pursuing careers in law and business...
...Because of [my] race and gender, I end up taking on more than perhaps I ought to," says Carolivia Herron, assistant professor of Afro-American studies and comparative literature. Although Herron also serves as Afro-Am head tutor, she has not received the customary reduction in teaching load given to head tutors because of the diminished number of courses in her department. She says the administration is working out a plan to ease her teaching responsibilities in the future...
Harvard's efforts to attract minorities will focus on "getting the news out," Vendler says. The main efforts toward Harvard undergraduates will include informational meetings at the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research and within concentrations. GSAS sends a brochure to prospective students, and the school encourages students who have not taken the traditional educational route to explore the possibility of graduate school...
...joint women's and Afro-American studies concentrator says students today also lack interest in becoming full-time activists after college because they do not consider it a "successful" career. She says Harvard's reputation encourages this attitude because it pressures students to seek traditional forms of success--in business, law or academia...