Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Core next year will include one Afro-American Studies course in the Literature and Arts area on twentieth century black literature. This course is the only offering under Literature and the Arts which will concentrate exclusively on twentieth century literature...
Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies, said today that some of the department members had informally discussed proposing a course for the Core, but he was uncertain whether they ever submitted any courses to the Standing Committee on the Core...
...quick to deny any racial or elitist intent--the motto is meant to acknowledge and affirm the singular course of American black musical development. The group's radical conception of musical performance has as its obvious source the improvisation and spontaneous creation which are characteristic of jazz, blues, and Afro-American folk music. These are musical values that have no counterpart in the mainstream of Western culture. But classifications like "jazz" or even "music" seem to narrow to contain the Art Ensemble's vision of "Great Black Music." It's terribly difficult to describe what the Art Ensemble of Chicago...
...President, unlike my colleagues from Afro-American Studies, I plan to be here for the next 35 or 36 years, if I survive through the half-life period, so I feel I have a special stake in Harvard's posture on this issue. Now, let me refer to something my colleague Prof. Mansfield said. I don't think this is a question that necessarily should divide us along left-right lines. I think I feel very strongly about the Soviet Union as well, but I think the issue here is that because of the compostion and special character...
Tahi L. Mottl, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, likened the conditions of black women in South Africa to the conditions of people living under slavery, and urged Bok to make "an unambiguous public statement" on South Africa. "A clear and succinct message from the President will have a tremendous impact" in South Africa, Mottl said...