Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That the lowest classes are being "bought" into the system is doubtful. Recent actions by blacks and Puerto Ricans at CCNY and by blacks elsewhere cast doubt on that assertion. Observe that the Afro demand was the only one that made a direct inroad on the power of Harvard's Faculty. Did Wellesley College in accepting 104 blacks for next year's freshman class of 500 expect a placid year of co-opting blacks and teaching them proper manners...
...eight articles do not avoid repitition, but unlike the rest of Three Thirty Three, they are written with some verve and contain some information. We learn that two-thirds of Harvard blacks are second-generation college students and that three-quarters went to predominantly white high schools, that former Afro president Jeff Howard thinks "Afro-American Studies is the manifestation of a few political realities just as much at fair Harvard as at San Francisco State,"and that whites are ill-advised to try instantly to pump black acquaintances for their views on the Problem. Harlon Dalton's introduction, provocatively...
...have just read the unbelievable fantasy about the Cultural Mafia's study of Afro-American culture [May 9]. I am a student at Barnard College majoring in linguistics, and I am black. I have spent time in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal in West Africa. I also have traveled the Caribbean and all parts of the U.S. I was positively revolted by the claims this group made about black laughter, black eating habits, aversion of eyes and more than anything else teaching ghetto students in incorrect language so they will "understand." Every individual I have seen in my life...
...student members--three elected by potential AAS concentrators and three from Afro--have full voting rights on the committee, a provision which caused the major Faculty opposition to the Afro proposal...
...Standing Committee's other two major concerns Musgrave said, will be the development of an Afro-American Research Institute and "some thinking" about tentative course offerings in AAS for next year's concentrators...