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Approximately 200 people crowded into Longfellow Hall yesterday to hear a reading by acclaimed author and Visiting Professor of Afro-American Studies Jamaica Kincaid...
...visiting professor is appointed each term by the Committee on Ethnic Studies jointly with a department, says Werner Sollors, Cabot professor of English and professor of Afro-American studies...
...more of a Harvard angle and she says that the only time the school has a real impact is during graduation, which typically sells out in 90 minutes. Aside from that--and regulars like W. E. B. DuBois Professor for the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74--the restaurant and the University don't have much to do with each other...
...speech was in honor of her father Ewart Guinier, " who taught me to speak in my own voice," and her mother Eugenia Guinier-- who attended the talk--" who is still teaching me how to life my voice in harmony with others." Ewart Guinier was the first chair of Afro-American studies at Harvard...
...problem is not one of race, it is one ofculture. The concept of race is deceptive in thatit encourages people to form and rely upon falseidentities," Reid wrote. "In many ways AmericanBlacks have more in common with American whites,than with Africans or Afro-Caribbeans. Racialconstructs have real effects, and so must be givenconsideration; but we should not allow them tocloud our perception of `reality.' And the realityis that we are all in the midst of personalbattles with `identity...