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Three years ago, the Afro-American Studies Department had one tenured professor and students decided to do something about it. After a series of meetings and a dramatic overnight sit-in in University Hall, they got the changes they wanted. Now it is 1993, and activists have changed their concerns. But despite many differences, in some ways it seems like...
Flasback to October 22, 1990: Five Afro-American Studies concentrators, angry at the lack of support for their department, staged a protest in Massachusetts Hall...
Ultimately, on November 16--in a story that has earned a place in the lore of student activism at Harvard--Afro-American Studies concentrators and Black Students Association members slept over at University Hall, refusing to leave for 23 hours and calling for support for Afro-American Studies...
Garcia said an ethnic studies department would most likely be interdisciplinary. A concentration in ethnic studies would include required courses in many different fields--paralleling the Afro-American Studies concentration...
...think it's important to think about differences between different ethnic groups when you're thinking about how to add them to the curriculum," he said. "We [Afro-American Studies] would fit in very happily with such a program...