Word: afro
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Jesse Jackson's bid for a presidential candidacy reflects the maturation of Afro-American politics. No claimant group in American politics--whether interest groups like labor and farmers in early 20th century, women today, or ethnic groups today like Blacks and Hispanics--can consider itself at the maturation stage in political status until it can make waves in the sea of candidates for the election to the presidency of the United States. Among several ways of doing this is to launch a candidate from the ranks of a claimant group, hoping to gain the nomination of a major party, influence...
Fundamental to the new maturation of Afro-American politics is the emergent diversity of attitudes toward major public policy issues (abortion, middle wage, tuition tax credit, crime, etc.) and the diversity of political leadership. Until the middle 1970s Afro-American politics displayed much uniformity in public policy attitudes and the character of political leadership. Since then growing diversification has evolved in these areas of Black politics, requiring a wider range of political ties...
Since he left the fledgling Afro-American Studies department in 1977, Isaac has said the University circumvented established tenure procedures by rejecting the validity of his specialty, African languages and culture. Because of his race and Ethiopian nationality, Isaac's protests have fueled charges of discrimination by Harvard...
...press conference, the National Council for Black Studies threw its full support behind Isaac, calling the case an example of barriers facing Afro-American studies nationwide...
Isaac's supporters claim Harvard's failure to grant him tenure stemmed from the University's decision to restrict the scope of the Afro-Am department to exclude Isaac's fields of African study...