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Word: afros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the student government, attacked ROTC courses as being of "inferior intellectual quality" and the field for being unqualified as "an academic discipline." Many felt ROTC courses were too easy and that funding could be diverted to more novel areas, like the Afro-American Department, which was founded that year...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: The Return of the Military | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...later with a bong and some presumably freebased cocaine, the audience knows only too well from the events of Pryor's own life what is about to happen. When we see him in the next scene being carried on a stretcher, looking like a bloody, beached alligator with an afro, we can fill in the blanks ourselves...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Richard Pryor, Your Story is Calling | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

Southern's achievements in the field of ethno-musicology have prompted some scholars, including Music Department Chairman Lewis H. Lockwood, to call Southern "certainly the leading scholar in the United States in the field of Afro-American music...

Author: By Meilin Kwan-gett, | Title: The Underside of Academic Opportunity | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

SOUTHERN IS CURRENTLY the only woman in the Afro-American Studies Department. "The statistic is really a very sad one," says department Chairman Werner Sollors. Sollors notes, though, that another woman has been recently appointed...

Author: By Meilin Kwan-gett, | Title: The Underside of Academic Opportunity | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...What strikes me as a young Black academic are particularly her roots," says Roderick J. Harrison, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies. "Old Black scholars are deeply rooted in a tradition of excellence. She is a living representative of a generation of Black scholars whose personal mission was that they could do work as well as the whites. They had to prove themselves...

Author: By Meilin Kwan-gett, | Title: The Underside of Academic Opportunity | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

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