Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Belinda C. Stubblefield, a second-year student and president of the Afro-American Student Union, says that while McArthur has been open to discussing such issues as the lack of Black professors and case study protagonists, most of her discussions have been with Sasser...
...When the Afro-American Studies Department extended a tenure offer to a University of Wisconsin literary scholar this year, administrators and members of the department--typically close-mouthed about appointments before they are finalized--were eager to tout the move...
Harvard's method for determining the best faculty members in any given field is, at best, a subjective judgment arrived at by individuals, among whom are many who would have great difficulty admitting that Blacks were the very best in any field--except for, perhaps, Afro-American Studies, and even there some would have doubts. Such a program unavoidably and unsurprisingly mirrors the racial paradigm in society as a whole. Nevertheless, what is being slowly called into question is whether Harvard or the society which it serves is best served by such a strict meritorious system...
Kimberly A. McClain '89, who wrote her thesis on the Haliwa-Sapani Indians of North Carolina, will receive $1000 from a fund set up by Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins in memory of his late sister, Kathryn Ann Huggins...
...prize is designed to bring together student scholarship on Afro-American studies from across the College, Huggins said. The selection committee received entries from concentrators in a variety of departments, including History, Literature and Afro-American Studies, he said...