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Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah said the Faculty's approach to ethnic studies should incorporate a comparative focus...
...there is a committee chaired by Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah commissioned in September by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles to make a comprehensive evaluation of the College's race relations policy...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center should have been more wary of inviting Khallid Muhammad. And those who listen to him should realize that just as his views do not represent those of the vast majority of African-Americans, neither do they represent those true practitioners of Islam...
...part of a three-day conference by the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center, entitled "Recapturing the Dream by Any Means Possible," Muhammad addressed the issue of truth by arguing that "white folks do lie" when they "tell you Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras and the other faggots are responsible for Western history." Instead, Muhammad insisted, it is Blacks who are responsible for Western history. How to make sense of this statement...
...truth that enables many of the same people to assume that Blacks are inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers, Muhammad does not even recognize the possibility of reaching for such truth. Instead he condemns the presence of white faculty in the Afro-American studies department: "What a slap in the face to bring in the slave master's son or slave master's daughter and to tell of the history they helped destroy." Clearly, this condemnation is grounded in the implicit assumption that the truth is entirely subjective, that history will...