Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wondered how valuable this inside information would be, especially after learning that "top scholar" Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 "couldn't keep up with the times," claiming that he didn't know if he should be referring to people such as myself as Negroes, Afro-Americans of African Americans...
Harvard's Afro-American Studies program is without doubt among the best --if not the best--in the nation. Through a string of faculty recruitments in recent years, the program has amassed an impressive array of academic all-stars. The department's chair, W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., is widely regarded as a top scholar in his field. And Gates deserves the lion's share of credit for the success of the program, using Harvard's resources and his own reputation to lure well-established professor from other universities to Cambridge. In light...
...recent successes of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department do not change our view that the department should be disbanded and its members integrated into other fields taught at the university. For it is as wrong to have an ethnocentric Afro-American Studies Department as it would be to have an ethnocentric European-American Studies Department...
...feathers. After all, as proponents of ethnic studies often argue--quite properly, in our view--for too long scholars have ignored the role of African-Americans and other ethnic groups in history. From this indisputable basis, however, they go on to reach a flawed conclusion. Programs like Harvard's Afro-Am Department are needed, they argue because they promote the multicultural perspective we have long lacked...
Here at Harvard, an institution with the potential to be a trend-setter, we must lead the way. integrating the nationally-respected Afro-American Studies program into the history, sociology and other nonethnically defined departments would be a tremendous step toward the true pluralistic multiculturalism America needs to embrace...