Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clinton says that sensitivity to the issues raised by students is one way a professor can help defuse the potential controversies that come with teaching topics such as Afro-American and women's history...
...Black history and women's history are very similar in that some people still consider them unusual and new and not yet paradigms of historical study," says Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History David W. Blight, who teaches courses on Reconstruction and modern Afro-American history. He says the newness of these fields leaves unresolved questions about what it is and is not appropriate to teach in the classroom...
Fabre and Dixon's group will identify and analyze symbolic dates, places, persons, commemorations, and famous or forgotten events in Afro-American history...
...DuBois Institute, a post-doctoral center for research in Afro-American Studies, hosts 12 to 15 scholars each year...
...grant will also fund intercollegiate working groups of scholars. These groups will focus primarily on prominent issues within the field of Afro-American Studies...