Word: afros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Buffington concentrated in English and Afro-American studies while at Harvard. He received a master's in American culture in 1994 from the University of Michigan...
Buffington concentrated in English and Afro-American studies while at Harvard. He received a master's in American culture in 1994 from the University of Michigan...
...look at the Afro-American Studies department as a parallel, you can see why Radcliffe should invest in professorships in Women's Studies rather than the Radcliffe Institute. The Afro-American Studies department is known for Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West, William Julius Wilson and other high-octane academics. It is not known for the W.E.B. DuBios Institute for Afro-American Research, the analog to the Radcliffe Institute...
Moreover, investing in a department rather than a research institute benefits students directly. Concentrators and non-concentrators take Afro-American course offerings. Blacks, whites, Asians and Jews enroll in those classes. How many students encounter the W.E.B. DuBios Institute on a regular basis...
...there are a wealth of professors you haven't heard of yet, but you'll come to relish: Helen H. Vendler and Marjorie Garber in English, Werner Sollors in Afro-American Studies, Robert Coles '50 in psychology...