Word: afros
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Responding to a bizarre series of personal attacks and threats, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 canceled a May 11 Arkansas speaking engagement, according to officials...
...University's affirmative action procedures have produced some substantial results, according to the report. For example, thanks in part to the efforts of Afro-American Studies department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr., the number of tenured black faculty in FAS has tripled over the past five years...
...personally am unsure about whether ethnic studies should have its own separate department (although the Afro-American Studies Department begs the question), but that's not even a consideration at this point...
Students have also been asking for more courses these last two decades. Harvard lists more than 90 courses in its "Ethnic Studies at Harvard" booklet that are outside the Afro-American Studies department...
...rest of their respective bodies of work, but nobody is perfect and their credentials speak for themselves. Harvard University has been truly fortunate to have West and Gates on the faculty, and I feel thankful for having had the opportunity to have taken West's introduction to Afro-American studies last fall and for being able to see him speak as often as I do. The complaint that may be legitimately voiced is that a good portion of this $21 book is simply reprinted essays. And with a particularly presumptuous title that promises a certain product and plays...