Word: afros
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...core idea is quite simple," said Robert P. Wolff '54, co-director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities at UMass, Amherst. "The disastrous dropout of Hispanic and Afro-Americans begins in 8th grade, so if you recruit 12th graders, many are lost...
Historians at Harvard share your enthusiasm for the recent successes of Afro-American Studies (staff editorial, November 19, 1993). The University has been strengthened and Chair Henry Louis Gates and his colleagues deserve our thanks. But I regret that you thought it useful to misrepresent the Department of History to make your point. There is no "infighting among the department leadership" preventing "the expansion of...20th-century American offerings." That is why the "University" (by which you seem to mean the Dean and the President) have left it to the department to build and rebuild as we best...
...addition of Cornel West '74 to the Afro-American studies department has been touted as a major accomplishment for Harvard. But, according to several of Boston's leaders, West's presence should be felt throughout the area...
...only goes to show what a little commitment can do. Three years ago, when West refused a tenured post in Afro-Am, the department had only one tenured professor and a small, embittered group of concentrators who were certain that Harvard was not taking their needs seriously. Since then, Afro-Am has been transformed--not only because of Gates' charismatic leadership, but also because Bok and Rosovsky were willing to devote the resources to rebuilding Afro...
...ethnic studies--an area that sparks considerable enthusiasm among students and professors but one the University has so far only reluctantly moved forward on. Devoting the energy now to ailing departments and fledgling disciplines would likely yield results. The administration should take a lesson from the history of Afro...