Word: afros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same sime, the Student 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...
Thomson Professor of Government Jorge IgnacioDominguez will chair the committee. Other memberswill be: Lowell Professor of Sociology StanleyLieberson, Cabot Professor of English Literatureand Professor of Afro-American Studies WernerSollors, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A.Thernstrom, Professor of Chinese History andPhilosophy WeiMing Tu and Loeb Associate Professorof the Social Sciences Mary C. Waters
Hoyte said another factor which will encourageminority Ph.D. applicants is the perceivedascendancy of the Afro-American studies departmenthere...
...anecdotal impression is that the conceptionof Harvard as having a new, invigorated interestin being on the cutting edge of a field like[Afro-Am] will help encourage minority scholars ofall levels and in all fields to consider cominghere," Hoyte said...