Word: afro
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Matory is 43 years old. Wearing a dark suit, a neon-blue backpack, and a bicycle helmet, he arrives in his spacious William James Hall office eager to share his collection of Afro-Atlantic sacred...
...Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, rallied to Summers’ defense during the University president’s spat with Cornel R. West ’74. (Summers had criticized West, then a star member of the school’s Afro-American studies team, for devoting too much time toward non-academic pursuits, including several prominent left-wing political causes.) And Jacoby commended the University president for his opposition to the Israel divestment movement, which Summers suggested was “anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...
...fall of 2001, West’s course Afro-American Studies 10, “Introduction to Afro-American Studies,” drew 579 students alone. That year, Af Am 10 could be taken for Core credit; since West left, the course was overhauled and no longer qualifies for Core credit. Af Am 10 enrolled just 17 students last year, though it attracted 46 students this year...
...attempt to bolster the Afro-American studies department, then-Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky formed an Afro-Am Studies executive committee that sought to strengthen the department in the fall...
...Class of 1980 approached graduation, “all but two chairs remain vacant in 77 Dunster St., the Afro-Am Department building,” The Crimson wrote in its June 5 issue...