Word: afro
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Monroe said he plans to learn about art history, psychology, music and Afro-American studies to complement his courses on entrepreneurial leadership from the Business School...
...support of affirmative action to demonstrate his commitment to diversity. Summers’ predecessors have made such commitments. President Bok presided over the creation of Harvard’s affirmative action program and argued for its constitutionality during the Bakke case. Rudenstine presided over the rise of the Afro-American studies department from a one-professor, one-student affair to a nationally recognized, ground-breaking department with a $39 million endowment...
...effort to continue to attract minority students, Summers said Harvard must strengthen Afro-American studies department and “make sure there are ways of studying the idea of ethnicity...
...former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine’s tenure was his dogged emphasis on diversity, which succeeded in erasing much of the stain of that history and making the university a genuinely welcoming place for black students. Ironically, the highest-profile symbol of that success is the Afro-American studies department, whose “dream team”—a Rudenstine treasure—has been famous as a nexus of celebrity scholars, if not quite of groundbreaking scholarship itself. West’s intemperate allegations on his way out the door are not just...
Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, who decided to leave Harvard for Princeton this year, has written extensively on race. In the essay “Illusions of Race” from the collection In My Father’s House, Appiah discusses the racial theories of another famous Harvard academic, W. E. B. Du Bois, Class of 1890. After picking apart Du Bois’ theory and showing the racism that underlies it, Appiah states “the truth is that there are no races: there is nothing in the world that...