Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LATEST problems of the Afro-American Studies Department should come as little surprise. A small department with few tenured faculty, Afro-Am has always swayed with the whims of its few affiliates...
With Professor of American Literature and Language and of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, the department's chairman, on sabbatical this year, the only tenured member of the department is W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins. "Understaffing is not uncommon at Harvard," Huggins told The Crimson, "It's just more noticeable in a small department." Indeed. This year it will offer only three departmental courses...
...department has been hurt by the departure of two of its senior faculty. Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and of Music, retired and Glenn C. Loury decided to devote all of his time to the Kennedy School...
...assistants is the hardest part of the diatribe to fathom. All three were well prepared, lively, advanced graduate or law school students who enjoyed teaching the course. Whatever their faults, boring they were not; one was even strikingly beautiful. In the light of the diatribist's chauvinistic mockery of Afro-Caribbean religion I cannot help wondering whether his real problem with the teaching staff was the fact that they were all Black...
...divorced his father and married Jean Fugett, an elementary school teacher, when Lewis was nine years old. Though he does not readily talk about it, Lewis must have been exposed to a strong sense of black pride early on. As a ten-year-old paper boy, Lewis delivered the Afro-American in surrounding neighborhoods. Later he attended Virginia State College, a black school...