Word: afro
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Susan Dawkins '89 was talking to a judge in her hometown about her aspirations to be a lawyer last year, and the judge asked her what her concentration was. Dawkins told the judge, "Afro-American Studies," at which point he asked her why she, a Black American, would choose a concentration that he considered to be redundant. Today, Dawkins has added on Government to her Afro-American concentration after often having to defend the legitimacy of a degree in Afro...
While Johnson's long-running commitment to bringing scholarly attention to Afro-American literature is well noted, these "are not merely rhetorical questions." Nor are they, ultimately, un-constructive starting points for Johnson. A World of Difference, a collection of essays gathered from Johnson's work in literary theory during the past decade, relentlessly questions the role of literary interpretation, academic establishments and the critic in the "real world." Always, the essays remain aware of how contradictions in language remain one step ahead of our assumptions about these categories: "Suddenly it became clear to me that `the real world...
Hyatt, lecturer in Afro-American Studies, is leaving Harvard to become director of Wesleyan University's center for Afro-American Studies...
Professor of Political Economy and Afro-American Studies Glenn C. Loury said yesterday that it is because he is Black that his stand against affirmative action has become an issue in his nomination to a top Reagan Administration post...
...concerned about its relationship to schools like Harvard and Stanford," said co-author Gates, a professor of English and Africana studies and Cornell's only Black full professor. "We set our goals in relation to them," said Gates, who is also the chairman of Harvard's Visiting Committee on Afro-American Studies and a research associate at Harvard's Dubois Institute...