Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cudjoe, speaking to about 20 students at a meeting sponsored by the Student Assembly, made a plea for more white students to enroll in Afro-American courses...
...same kind of unconscious, unreasoned racism that prevents other departments from finding 'well-qualified' black professors pervades the psyche of Euro-Americans so deeply, that most white students do not ever even consider taking an Afro-Am course," Cudjoe said...
...more than 1000 students took Afro-American courses, and 80 per cent of them were white, Cudjoe said. Only 314 students are now taking Afro-American courses and there is only one white concentrator in the department, he added...
...White students have a responsibility to take our courses," he added. Afro-American studies are "more relevant than English or History, if you believe education is about liberation and learning about yourself," Cudjoe added...
Merhling said the committee has also planned weekend workshops and discussions about South Africa, the Nestles boycott, the J.P. Stevens boycott, Harvard's community relations, women's studies, nuclear power and Afro-American studies...