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...rationale is not simply the need to meet the demands of the American car market or harness the spirit of innovation. From the homogeneous vantage points of Japan and Germany, the exuberant free thinking seems to be a function of L.A.'s slam-bang Anglo-Afro-Latino-Asian ethnic mix -- cultural democracy by default. "The Southern California area is like a melting pot -- there are so many different races," says Mitsubishi vice president Satoru Tsujimoto. "From those different backgrounds, there are many different values. So there are many different designs." For companies acutely conscious of their need to sell cars...
Traditionally strong in Europe-American and Asian arts, the department is pushing to add Columbian, African-Oceanic, and eventually Afro-American art studies to the concentration...
That means speaking out against voices that say that only Blacks can study Afro-American studies and against people who ignore the American in "African-American," he says...
...Anthony Appia accepted a tenured position in the Afro-American Studies Department. Appia, whose scholarship is in philosophy and literature, has been a faithful right-hand person to new Afro-Am chair Henry L. Gates, Jr. He and Gates were friends in college and have since taught together at Yale, Cornell and Duke...
...Afro-American Studies at Harvard is on the move--literally. The department is now occupying new quarters at 1430 Mass...