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Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. will be spending next year at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton...
Harvard students were the primary participants in the show, but members of the greater Cambridge and Boston community participated as well. Outside involvement included a performance of Capoeria, an Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art, by members of the Associacao de Capoeria Mandinguerios dos Palmares, located in Central Square. Their Performers ranged from children to middle-aged men and women...
...first return to Harvard. His film Harvard Man (2001), a semi-autobiographical reenactment of Toback’s life-changing experiments with LSD during his undergraduate years, was filmed on location in Cambridge. And Toback was a key speaker in a conference sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies after the 1999 release of his film Black and White, which explored the popularity of hip-hop music in white suburbia...
...story led the front page of the Yale Daily News on April 9, and then, as if on cue, a rash of more intimidating incidents began being reported. A vicious, hate-spewing message directed at anti-war protesters was allegedly scrawled onto a poster in front of the Afro-American Cultural Center; a student returning from a vigil for Iraqi civilian casualties said he was spit on; students who had hung flags upside-down in solidarity with Lo reported intruders turning the flags right-side up or stealing them. In two days, a total of six incidents of intimidation were...
This is also a victory for students and student choice. The large number who, until now, had no rigorous formal framework for their interest in African studies will at last be accommodated. And students within the Afro-American Studies Department will no longer have to juggle concentration commitments with elective courses associated with African studies. With a wider array of possibilities for students and more resources for scholarly work in this field, everyone wins...