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Finally, to Mansfield's assertion that Harvard is too P.C.: We disagree. Students and Faculty are for the most part liberal, and many are genuinely interested in areas such as Afro-American Studies. But we do not see a crazed community in which people are afraid to share their views. We do not see an administration bowing to liberal pressure at the expense of conservative ideas...
...that. We get courses about "American Identities in Everyday Life," "Bi-culturalism and American Identity" and, my favorite, "Popular Culture and Mass Media," a class which examines such watershed films as "The Color Purple" and "The Joy Luck Club." The syllabus boasts an interdisciplinary approach which draws on sociology, Afro-American studies and gender studies--all inarguably indispensable influences on the art of expository composition...
Harvard's Afro-American studies department, the Institute of Politics, and two organization of black trade unionists--the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) and the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI)--are co-sponsoring the event...
...Year's Eve, Brazilians pay homage to Iemanja, the African queen of the sea. Millions of revelers clad entirely in white, a symbol of purity in Afro-Brazilian culture, throng the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to placate Iemanja and court good luck by lighting candles and tossing flowers, cosmetics and other gifts into the ocean for the vain goddess...
Last May, three professors were awarded University professorships: Baker professor of administration Robert C. Merton, a Nobel laureate; Cornel West '74, professor of the philosophy of religion and professor of Afro-American studies; and Weiner Professor of Social Policy William Julius Wilson...