Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Beach. The strongest enclave for interracial dating is the school or college campus. A poll taken recently at Detroit's Wayne State University showed that 279 out of 365 students had dated, or intended to date, members of another race. Says Jim Nabors, vice chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at Berkeley: "It's no longer avantgarde. It's just a little avant-garde...
...Wreckage. What speaks most eloquently, both black and white museum sponsors have found, is not art produced by the cultural ancestors of white America. Most ghetto exhibitions are carefully tailored to their audiences, designed to help meet the widely voiced demand from Negroes for more information about their neglected Afro-American heritage. Currently, several dozen projects are under way in about 20 cities, financed by $400,000 worth of seed money from the National Endowment for the Arts, by states' arts councils, private benefactors and locally raised nickels and dimes...
Detroit's International Afro-American Museum, organized by Dr. Charles H. Wright, a black gynecologist, is a trailer that tours schools. Among its exhibits: African statues from the collection of G. Mennen Williams, a clay model of the 14th century West African metropolis of Timbuctoo, and exhibits on the ancient (6th century) Zimbabwe civilization in Rhodesia...
...irrelevant in matters of scholarship. "You don't need a Greek to teach Greek or a Communist to teach Marx," contends Rutgers Provost Richard Schlatter. Anyone with a valid claim to expertise in black studies can just about choose his campus. Brooklyn College has created a chair in Afro-American studies, offering up to $31,000 a year, but has yet to find an occupant...
Stanford, Harvard and Yale are debating whether to offer degrees in Afro-American studies. A proposed major at Yale would require specialization in a discipline, such as history, economics or political science, then examine the approaches of several disciplines toward Negro culture in a junior-year seminar, finish with a senior-year colloquium and a major paper. The leader in promoting black culture as a separate discipline, however, has been San Francisco State. Negro Sociologist Nathan Hare, who has a doctorate from the University of Chicago, supervises 15 courses, ranging from Avant-Garde Jazz to Ancient Black History and Swahili...