Word: afros
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...Gates said there is one place Schaffer can find the classic traditions. He said sherry is still served in the offices of Afro-American Studies Department...
...Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies were instituted as concentrations as the result of political pressure--either from students accusing the University of racial or gender bias or from wealthy alumni applying force through donations. To be intellectually honest, the staff should either support one or multiple new departments (or categories of thought) for each of the protesting ethnicities or call for doing away with them altogether...
Finally, in distinguishing between concentrations in Afro-American and Women's Studies but not ethnic studies, the staff draws an arbitrary and hollow line. Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans have also faced extreme discrimination in our society, discrimination that seems to be ignored by the staff in its classifications...
According to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, ethnic studies comprises Afro-American Studies, American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American...
...Daniels '71 is a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. During the past two years, he taught a course in the Expository Writing Program on John F. Kennedy...