Word: afros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same sime, the Students Afro-American Society (SAS) was protesting a university proposal to build a gymnasium in a public park in the predominantly Black community of Morningside Heights...
...University administrators didn't think there were enough qualified Faculty members to establish a high-caliber department of Afro-American studies...
DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies department, has just published a book entitled Colored People. An extremely favorable review of the book in the New York Times reminded me of another article in that newspaper in February...
...Harvard, the few courses outside Afro-American Studies that deal with specific ethnic groups are taught by visiting professors or by professors whose specialty is something other than ethnic studies. And, a recent proposal for a standing committee on ethnic studies was rejected by the Faculty Council, not once but on three occasions. Bound by tradition to study so-called mainstream subjects, relevant departments (sociology and Afro-American Studies being exceptions) view ethnic studies as being less worthwhile; therefore here a department is really the only way to ensure a secure and strong program. The sociology department's interest...
...numbers speak for themselves. Out of 402 senior faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 32 are of color. None of these are U.S. Latino or Native American. While Harvard should celebrate the arrival of professors Cornel West and Evelyn Higginbotham next year, both jointly tenured in the Afro-American studies department and the Divinity school, we should not forget the essential role an independently strong Afro-American Studies department played in their appointments. Nor should we necessarily settle for one tenured female African American. This is not a matter of politically correct tokenism. A diverse faculty has influence...