Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of sophomore year, asthe Thursdayfests raged and she was coming toterms with Fairfield, her introspection about raceand identity only intensified. Smith decided toconcentrate in both English and Afro-Americanstudies; a seminar with Werner Sollors brought heracross a" threshold into--I don't want to sayblackness, but maybe commercial blackness,social blackness, confirmed in literature. I did alot of reading I hadn't done but should have doneby then...
...always seemed to me that this problem of the canon was misstated because it always seemed to me that there are so many things worth knowing," says Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...They need Western civilization," Pipes says."With all respect for Afro-American studies andWomen's Studies they cannot compete in terms ofwealth and importance and tradition with Westerncivilization...
Alvin L. Bragg Jr. '95, president of the BSA, says the University must hire more Black faculty in areas other than Afro-American Studies...
...protesters of 1969--in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their demands for severance of the University's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps and their call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department--defined a historic, activist era at Harvard...