Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another article to apear in the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, Kilson called the demands of Black Power leaders for a separate Negro state an expression of "a politically bizarre black radical infantilism...
What makes the final product so fresh and captivating is the skill with which Bearden employs his polyglot artistic heritage. His jigsaw Afro-American faces borrow their cubistic profiles from Picasso; yet, as Bearden says, Picasso in turn was inspired by African masks. Bearden also cadges tricks from Bosch, Brueghel and the neo-Dadaists, pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes...
Time and Newsweek magazines last week chalked up the rise of Afro-American groups on campus to the summer's unrest and its effect on returning black students. But this is too simple an answer. Afro-American groups, at least in the Ivy League, have been active, if not totally activist, for the last four or five years. Also, black students are arriving on the white campus in greater numbers this year. And they have been affected not much by the summer unrest per se, but more from the forces which caused that unrest; the increased militancy within the black...
Many contemporary black students are taking a different route, this time of their own volition. The role that these students are assuming is tied very closely to the idea of black identity and awareness. It has been the ideas and activity of Afro-American groups which have most meaningfully penetrated the isolation of the black student on the white campus. Afro-American organizations have given a sense of unity and expression to black students who have found their token presence in other campus organizations unmeaningful and unrewarding...
...both aspects, AAAAS's ultimate success will rely a great deal on the administration's and Roxbury's acceptance of Harvard Afro-Americans' new voice. Whether they choose to accept it or not, Harvard's black voice this year will be heard...