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Harvard’s Department of Afro-American Studies and AOL Time Warner will award two $100,000 grants to documentary filmmakers for projects on the African American experience in America, the company announced on Monday...
...event, part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard’s “Black Writers Reading” series, featured poet and Yale associate professor Elizabeth Alexander and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks—a 2001 MacArthur Grant recipient who last year became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize...
According to Department of Afro-American Studies Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who moderated the event, the two writers were brought together because of their work on Venus Hottentot, a South African woman who was brought to Europe in the 19th century after being told she would be a dancer, but was instead caged, exhibited and prodded by doctors...
...though several of the courses did experience extremely large enrollment changes—on the order of several hundred students—these extremely large fluctuations could frequently be explained by changes in teaching staff or some current event drawing undergraduates’ attention to the topic. For example, Afro-American Studies 10, “Introduction to Afro-American Studies,” dropped from an enrollment of 579 undergraduates to just 96 undergraduates between Fall 2001 and Fall 2002, a factor which might be explained by former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74?...
This very involvement of the viewer in establishing a context for the works points to another interpretation of the exhibit’s title. What if it signified not “Afro-(Ab)Straction” but “(Di)Straction?...