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...decision to enter the Afro-American Studies Department last spring was based primarily on my desire to receive a diverse education at Harvard. The interdisciplinary philosophy appealed to me. I felt that I would have a great deal of freedom in choosing classes that interested...
...must accept tenure offers. The recent tenure rejections of Nellie Y. McKay, Albert J. Raboteau and Cornell R. West '74 demonstrate that Harvard must make itself more desirable to outside scholars before they will come. In the meantime, the administration should be praised for its recent efforts to revitalize Afro-American Studies through joint tenure offers. We encourage the administration to keep trying...
...fads on Europe, so now the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh two-step that swept across Europe last year after being imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos, lambada and its Afro-Latin sound have hit America in a hurricane of hype. World Beat, an album by the lambada band Kaoma, has sold 600,000 copies. Two hurriedly produced lambada movies opened this month; five more such flicks are on the way. The commercialization has just begun. Retailers, including Bullock...
...filmmakers pepper House Party with a wide range of cultural references, from Public Enemy (the rap group) to Public Enemy (the Cagney classic). But most of their humor is homeboy, or what Reginald calls "Afro-Americana. Little bits of junk culture that tie the black community together." That's what the Hudlins hope to do now that, as Warrington puts it, "every studio in Hollywood has said they'd finance our next movie." As a kid, Warrington thought "movies were like magic that was performed in Hollywood." Now he and his brother have learned that if you believe in magic...
Many criticisms have been aimed at our scheduling of the Saturday morning panel discussion featuring [Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Comparative Literature] Carolivia Herron and [Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology] Roderick Harrison. Although it was held at a time which conflicted with three faculty lectures, the panel attracted approximately 100 people, about two-thirds of them parents. Despite earlier concerns about poor attendance, the panel drew a larger audience than even one of the official faculty lectures...