Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students of Afro-American Studies say they feel the concentration is developing in a positive direction, adding that since the department is still relatively small, there is a personal feeling between concentrators and faculty, Afro-American Studies also has no graduate program, making undergraduates even more central...
...department is in a period of development, and any time a department goes through a period of development it's bound to frustrate some with going too slow and frighten some with going too fast," says Ian. H. Solomon '94, who is concentrating in Afro-American Studies...
There are not as many social science classes as I would like," says E. Franklin Miller '94, a joint concentrator with Government. "A lot of Afro-American Studies as it is now doesn't apply to a lot of the issues facing Afrcian Americans today...
Other students say the information presented in the Afro-American studies curriculum inherently requires the discussion of a lot of controversial social issues...
...Afro-Am class the subject matter is very controversial," says Kaiama L. Glover '94, an Afro-Amercan Studies and History and Literature concentrator. "People insert a lot of social issues that they wouldn't if evaluating texts in other classes. It adds to the intensity...