Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teach Afro-American Literature because I am trained in literature, and because Afro-American literature is the literature of my people, one of the most oppressed nationalitites in the world today. I make no apology for this categorization. Witness the profound alienation of Afro-American peoples, the malicious attempt to reduce us to beings only concerned with the satisfaction of animal desires, the undisguised genocidal practices to which Afro-Americans are subjected daily (over 50 per cent of the U.S. prison population is black), the gross unemployment of our youth (over 60 per cent unemployed) while billions go toward arms...
When, therefore, one speaks of Afro-American literature, one speaks about the literary expressions of the spiritual and emotional experiences of the people whose condition I have just described. Like all great art, literature reflects the historical content of a given age. As a pedagogical tool, it is nothing more than another means of trying to cognize the nature of physical and emotional reality. As such, Afro-American literature is simply the reflector of the life of Afro-American peoples, which shows us the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they...
...Dartmouth College faculty committee last week voted to broaden the Black Studies Program into an Africa and Afro-American Studies Program and recommended the field become a permanent feature of the curriculum...
...televised segment of Visions and viewpoints, a Public Health School production which will deal with the history of the Afro-American Department at Harvard. The show will be aired in the Science Center next Friday...
...Plans to publicize student sentiment and form a group to meet regularly to monitor the actions of the Administrations. "The Administration likes to pacify the students. Attempts to phase Afro into a committee are likely to activate students in a way I don't think the University wants." Eugene J. Green '80, an Afro-Am concentrator said yesterday...