Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Protesters called for courses in Asian-American, Latino-American and Native American studies similar to those already offered in the Afro-American Studies Department...
...Those professors] are all visiting, and they're here for no more than a semester," Cho said. "There is zero stability as far as education in race and ethnic studies are concerned, aside from Afro-American studies...
Leaders in "The Campaign to End the Death Penalty" include Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74 and Robert H. Meeropol, executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children...
Fortunately, that was not the only trend. At Columbia, for example, there has been an Afro-American studies program--on paper anyway--since 1969. But it was not until 1993, after several student protests, that the university hired respected radical historian Manning Marable to establish and direct the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, which now boasts 60 courses and 25 faculty members with affiliations in 10 other academic departments...
...been able to entice a black conservative or an Afrocentric with Harvard-worthy credentials. And though they disagree on many issues, they agree that black studies is not for blacks only, as some Afrocentrics maintain. Says Gates: "We stand as a rebuttal to the idea that Afro-American studies is primarily about building the self-esteem of other African Americans, or that only African Americans can understand, interpret and therefore teach black studies." When Gates took over as chairman, only one student was majoring in "Afro studies." Today the department's courses are among the most popular that Harvard offers...