Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catches himself and eases off, slipping from declaration into explanation. "I've been here since I was three years old on and off, so I definitely do have ties to American culture, especially strong ties and affinity to Afro American culture," he says...
...weeks after the audition, Ashong didn't hear from the studio. It didn't really matter, he figured. He'd just go back to school, finish up his thesis, a musical on identity issues facing Africans and Afro-Americans, and graduate...
When Henry Louis Gates Jr. became chair of the Afro-American studies department in 1991, he made luring the renowned University of Chicago professor William Julius Wilson to Cambridge one of his priorities...
Finally, in 1995, in a discussion of race and politics in the living room of Vice President Al Gore '69, Wilson told Gates that he might be ready to move. Gates quickly invited Wilson and Harvard's entire Afro-Am. department to a dinner party at his home...
Wilson is the most recent addition to Harvard's star collection of scholars in Afro-American studies. Joining him are Professor of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah; Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74, snagged from Princeton in 1995; the recently imported Lawrence D. Bobo, formerly of the University of California at Los Angeles and Visiting Lecturer on Afro-American Studies Jamaica Kincaid...