Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applaud the vigorous efforts of our Afro-American Studies department in recruitment of senior faculty; yet, I'd like to draw the distinction between progress due to amazing individuals within the Afro-Am department and progress due to a coherent administration policy or effort. Admirable success in a single department does not prove that the system and process of senior faculty hiring--as well as that for administrative positions--is open and equitable...
Last year, the University achieved a nationally recognized coup by recruiting Professor of Afro-American Studies and African-American Religious History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham from the University of Pennsylvania. Higginbotham is on leave and not teaching courses during the current school years, but she is on staff and scheduled to teach in the fall...
...goal of any multicultural curriculum is not to promote separatism but rather to feed Knowledge to those who remain ignorant (whether voluntarily or involuntarily). An Afro-American Studies course on identity and culture might be of benefit to individuals like Mansfield...
Join some of the other white students who have independently opted to take classes in the Afro-American Studies Department. And finally acknowledge my most beautiful and irreplaceable characteristic: MY BLACKNESS. Kristen Clarke...
...Lanzo and Mr. Sterling also call for the dismantling of Harvard's Afro-American Studies program, despite the fact it is "among the best--if not the best--in the nation." Once again the facts refute their theories...