Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campuses. The fury of the student body at Harvard was a factor in a host of major decisions during that time, from the selection of Derek C. Bok as the University's 25th president to the move to kick ROTC off campus to the creation of the Department of Afro-American Studies...
...conference, more than 100 students of all different races and class years packed the Winthrop Junior Common Room to hear Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 and Education 4 Action Coordinator Faith E. Adele '86 speak about the necessity of an inclusive, and grassroots, approach to social activism. The students then clustered in small groups to get goals and brainstorm tactics...
...courses listed in the brochure "Ethnic Studies at Harvard" which are not in the Afro-American Studies Department, only 25 meet the students of ethnic studies established by Harvard's student advocates and programs at other schools...
Some academics laud the report as an important statement coming at a critical time for affirmative action. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, says Rudenstine gets an "A+" for his efforts in promoting diversity, adding that he believes Rudenstine will one day be considered a truly great president...
Those who disagree with our argument are likely to point to the existence of the Afro-American Studies Department and the Committee on Women's Studies as strong evidence that it is necessary and important to focus on the experience of specific minorities in American society. There are fundamental differences, however, between the experiences of blacks and women, and, say, Italians, Asians or Latinos. To begin with, blacks are the only members of American society, besides Native Americans, who did not come to this country voluntarily. In fact, most blacks were brought here in a tragic and violent nature...