Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afro-American Studies Department should be changed to an interdisciplinary committee, the visiting committee to the department recommended in a unanimously approved report. The report's conclusions were made public yesterday in an article in The New York Times...
...over two years students and faculty members have made this direct economic support for the system of apartheid in South Africa the subject of continuing protest, linking it at times to Harvard's own system of racism by its repression of the Afro-American studies department. In the past, President Bok and the Corporation have reluctantly made face-saving gestures, such as providing Nieman Foundation fellowships to the South African jornalists Percy Qoboza and Donald Woods, whenever the embarrassment of their policies have been too great. Now, in another move to undercut the opposition to Harvard's lucrative hare...
...indulging Baldwin's familiar obsession with the black church. His approach produces an odd melange of eroticism and spiritualism, which seems to alternate between embarrassing explicitness and slightly cloying romanticism. However, the book as a whole testifies to the author's considerable talent as chronicler of several decades of Afro-American cultural growth and change...
...arguments go back and forth, but the intense controversy over such a seemingly technical question reflects its deeper significance. The issue of joint appointments is linked to what critics say is Afro-Am's unequal status within the University...
...Isaac controversy reflects a larger debate over substantive issues critical to the future of Afro-Am itself, issues that the current executive committee charged with governing the department will have to resolve...