Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, as quoted in The New York Times, Feb. 7. Gates was describing an incident of the week before, in Paris, where he had participated in a conference entitled "A Visual Arts Encounter: African-Americans and Europe...
America's colleges and universities have been drawn into the debate as some Afro-American Studies professors have brought allegedly anti-Semitic texts into the classroom and their research output...
Even Harvard could be pulled into the fray with Wellesley and Kean. An advertisement that ran in yesterday's Crimson hints at criticism of the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department for his tolerance of Jews...
...brilliant and controversial presence passed quietly through Harvard square. As part of the Harvard Bookstore Lecture Series, philosopher, preacher and scholar Cornel West '74 spoke about his most recent book, Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America, at the Cambridge Public Library. West, currently a professor of religion and Afro-American Studies at Princeton University, will be joining the Afro-American Studies department here in the fall of 1994. He is known both for his academic accomplishments and for his activity as a community leader...
Readers sometimes complain about all the bad news in The Crimson. Of course, we do report good news when it happens (earlier this year, for example, we endorsed and wrote much about the expected move of prominent scholar Cornel West '74 from Princeton to Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department...