Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably ever get. Oh, he can't resist the usual jokes--he calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...
This year's recipients work in fields ranging from Afro-American Studies to Visual and Environmental Studies. Three of the winners currently teach at Stanford...
Willian J. Harris assistant professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook said he will finish his books on the "poetry and poetics of Amiri Baraka" while working under the auspices of the Afro American Studies Department. Harris said he is "exicted" about coming to Cambridge There is "uncredible energy in that town" he added...
...specialist in microeconomic theory, labor economics and industrial organization, Loury said he plans to teach an undergraduate course that addresses Afro-American issues from an economic perspective...
Glenn C. Loury, a University of Michigan economist, accepted a joint appointment to the Economics and Afro-American Studies Department last week, making him the third senior faculty member in Afro-Am and one of a handful of tenured Blacks on the Harvard faculty...