Word: afros
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With dramatic gesticulations and an expressive voice, West, who was named last fall as professor of Afro-American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held his audience of more than 400 students in concentrated silence...
Dating back to 1969, When a Black student groupused veiled promises of riot to push a balkyFaculty into creating Afro-American Studies, therehas been a tradition of strong-armed activism inthe BSA. During the deliberations over AfroAm, onestudent sat outside the Faculty room with aconcealed meat cleaver during the deliberationsover Afro-Am; few believe the department wouldhave been created without the threats...
...There's so much. Tracey is like writing a book." She's the sort of person you would ordinarily never read about in The Crimson: far too private. She admits she knows very few people. She spent her time here studying for her Afro-American Studies classes, working in Schlesinger library at Radcliffe, and tutoring kids in Dorchester, but mostly just hanging out in her house, the Dudley Co-op, a cooperative living community offered as an alternative to house life. Instead of doing a million extracurriculars or vying for junior Phi Beta Kappa, Carter excelled at the few things...
...goal in mind. "I came to Harvard to doAfro-Am because that's all I wanted to study.There never seemed to be another choice that mighthave rivaled it. I applied to colleges to dothat." Now, she adds women's fiction and creativewriting to her list of her academic interestswithin Afro-American Studies. "[The concentration]taught me what I wanted to know that you can'tlearn in school before college...
Like most people, Carter defines her time atHarvard by the things she has chosen to do here.She looks back happily on her time at the Co-op,in the Afro-Am department, working at Schlesingerand participating in the tutoring program inDorchester. "The Co-op made it possible to stay atHarvard until the end," she says. It most closeslyresembled the warm nurturing environment in whichshe had grown...