Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with his duties as assistant dean and tutor in Leverett, Epps is a man of surprisingly diversified extra-curricular interests, many of which involve a large number of Negro students. Advisor to the Association of Afro and Afro-American Students, Epps feels that it provides a forum for discussion between African and American Negroes where they can examine the "useful aspects of negritude." Primarily, he says, it helps form a Negro identity, "but I do not think that the forum should exclude whites who are interested in the same issues...
.../shall-not-be/integrated or (Uncle Ralph Bunche) assimilated," I figure it's best to talk, walk, sing and swing like a true nigger! It is like my music, jazz. It's personal, and the sounds often change from nigger to Negro and from colored to Afro. That's our sound. It's our contribution to the world, it's pure Afro-American. It's beautiful. 'Taint necessarily so that our sounds have...
...Afro-Islamic Harlems. The Dreams of Reason proceeds like a script for a dream film in 112 numbered but un-spliced sections. The action is arbitrary and apparently motiveless. The identities of the characters and/or freaks are seen for the first time, but they are recognizable as old friends or enemies, and the most bizarre events are totally credible. The question of truth never arises; it is only the interpreter of the dream who is confused. The reader -or dream interpreter -will have to sup ply his own factual journalism...
Domingo assumes that everyone re members that in the fall of 1961, France was suffering one of its periodic nervous breakdowns. The French army had fought seven years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...
...question of de facto discrimination has been raised, however. In 1963 the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students sought recognition with a constitution effectively excluding whites. The University refused, and AAAAS substituted a membership-by-election clause. This was commonly --though not officially -- regarded as a means of exclusion analogous to the one which final clubs were alleged...