Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front-page article in Tuesday's edition was in error. Charlene Morisseau '95 concentrates in social studies, not Afro-American studies...
...must say that I was flattered to find myself pictured alongside Cornel West, under the headline, "The Two New Faces of Harvard Afro-Am" (March 22, 1994). Of course, the "two new faces" referred to by the headline are actually West and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, both newly appointed faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department. Perhaps The Crimson did not have a picture of Higginbotham available, but the use of my picture does raise some interesting questions regarding the purpose and intent of those who prepared the story...
...qualify my assessment of Afro-Am's "preeminence" in terms of its link to Harvard and the Harvard "name." My doing so is not intended to diminish either the significance of West's and Higginbotham's appointments or the impressive pace at which the Afro-Am department has been rebuilding itself from its near collapse in 1990-1991. Having been an Afro-Am concentrator since 1991--the time of the department's rebirth--I have proudly witnessed Afro-Am's noteworthy accomplishments, especially in the growth of its faculty and course offerings...
While I am confident that the members of the Afro-Am departments are well aware of the tasks facing them, I am not convinced that such a commitment exists university-wide. In recent discourses on faculty diversity and multiculturalism, there has been a tendency by some critics to exploit the successes of the Afro-Am department in order to dismiss all further claims for hiring "minority" faculty or expanding ethnic studies...
...head slowly side to side as he listened to his band. Watson was his characteristic self on this tune, looking like a sly serpent when he blew into his golden saxophone and smiled deviously. He slowly gyrated in his Armani suit as he played, moving his enormous aerodyamic Afro, like something from a Schlitz malt liquor ad. When his solo shot up to the high end breathlessly, it was easy to see why he is heralded as on of the best saxophonists of his generation. When the piano's turn came, he built up a solo that climaxed with...