Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard administrators are careful to distinguish between Afro-Am and other areas of ethnic studies...
Dominguez says that Harvard's Afro-American studies program is not an example of limited ethnic studies, because the department is based on a racial, rather than an ethnic, category...
Jones-Correa says that it would perhaps have been better to establish an inclusive ethnic studies program, rather than an Afro-American studies program, 25 years ago, as Berkeley did. But he also says it is possible to make a distinction between Afro-American studies and other areas of ethnic studies...
...very distinct history. [African-Americans are] not quite like other ethnic groups or immigrant groups," Jones-Correa says. "I don't think that having Afro-Am here means that every group should advocate its own separate program...
Thernstrom, though, says he's not sure even Afro-American studies is worthy of an independent department...