Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Thelwell, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, says he has noted a recent change in student activism on campus...
...attorney for the Cambridge Afro-American Police Association, which filed the suit, said he would refer to the comment during the trial to reflect the racial insensitivity within the police department...
...ring. Representatives of Cornell, Columbia, Swarthmore, Yale, Brown, Bowdoin and Harvard -- all of which have accepted him for next fall -- have been urging him to come. Bowdoin flew him to Brunswick, Me., gratis, for a two-day love feast for minority prospects, complete with a dance at the Afro-American house and a coq au vin dinner at a professor's home. With the May 1 decision date just days away, any further conversation with his suitors would only add to Owens' confusion: "Everybody has been pulling me in different ways," he frets...
Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer, a prominent expert on education who is leading a Social Studies junior tutorial this semester on race and ethnicity in the U.S., presented a paper to an Afro-American seminar on how to teach sensitive subjects. "Basically," he says, "it was a paper on how to tell the bad news and to try to develop some guidelines...
Foner, a social historian who teaches courses on Afro-American history and the history of American radicalism, says that students in the early 1970s raised objections to his teaching courses on Black history because he was white...