Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who sued Harvard in 1980 for discrimination has won the latest round in a complicated legal battle with the institution that denied him tenure...
...Seymour Society, a Black Christian group of which Kilson was one of the initial advisors. Instead, Blacks must work within the system: get a good education, enter the world of white elites, and then build up institutions and networks for Blacks (for instance, establishing chairs in the Afro-American Department or setting up Black scholarship funds...
...Ethnocentric militants" will always be making these arguments, Kilson counters. The debate between them and the "pragmatic independents"--as he calls himself--"has always been out there in Afro-American life and it will be there until the cows come home...
Since Fletch writes his column under yet another pseudonym and repeatedly states his loathing for his first name, a shrink might assume that he has something of an identity problem. And since he likes to visualize himself sporting an Afro haircut and helping Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lead the Lakers to N.B.A. glory, the evidence seems to support that theory. But a couch, unless it is shared by a blond as attractive as Dana Wheeler-Nicholson -- playing a distressed damsel he rescues -- is the last place any sensible person would want to find him languishing. Much better for himself...
Carlin currently is a section leader in Literature and Arts A-37, "Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama," and in Afro-American Studies 137, "Black Women Writer." Last semester she was a section leader in Literature and Arts C-31. "Lieterature of the Outsider in America." Carlin has also taught sections of Expository Writing in the past...