Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent formation of an Alumni Committee to Support Afro-American Studies and plans by the Black Student Association (BSA) to sponsor an Afro-American Studies rally Friday seem to point to a growing concern among students and alumni about the direction the department is headed...
...alumni group took out a full-page advertisement in the Crimson this week calling on the University to reaffirm its commitment to a stong Afro-American Studies Department. And BSA President Gaye Williams '83 said the planned rally will also try to pressure the University to negotiate in good faith in the case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor in the department who was denied tenure...
...addition to the question of focus, the alumni group is concerned about the University's overall commitment to the department. "The history of Afro-American Studies has been one of deliberate neglect and abuse by the College, and hard work by students and alumni to maintain it," Cunningham said...
...Cunningham says that in the battle over Afro-Am at Harvard, the stakes are larger than just the one department. With the Reagan Administration toning down criticism of South Africa, attempts to academically sever the links of Black Americans to Africa are in part a political attempt to weaken the ties Black Americans feel to Black Africa, she added...
...absolute lie to say that African history is not part of Afro-American studies," she said, adding that it is a lie that may move into the political realm, and "Harvard sets the ideological stage for a lot of that...