Word: afros
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...Gates, chair of the Afro-American studies department, said yesterday that he has not looked at a house in the area since July and that he continues to struggle over his academic future—a decision he said yesterday he will make by early December...
Savannah J. Frierson ’05 is an English and Afro-American studies concentrator in Eliot House. She is a member of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College...
...protest of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. West has been criticized by some for spending too much time in the streets and not enough in the classroom. But in some fields, it is very difficult to separate activism from scholarship. In fact, the field of Afro-American studies is an ideal example of an entire discipline that lends itself to public activity. Founded during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the field sprung from extremely activist roots. Many black studies scholars to this day believe that a central component of the field is activism...
...most sophisticated departments combine the principles of traditional scholarship with the commitment to expanding the world’s knowledge about the African-American community,” says DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is chair of Harvard’s Afro-American studies department...
...campus. I don’t remember them exactly, I have a shirt at home with them all silk-screened onto it. The other original three had to do with stopping Harvard expansion into the community. One of the two demands added during the demonstration was to create an Afro-American studies department. That wasn’t an SDS demand, but there was a black students group that saw the takeover and decided to join, so we added that demand to our list. The last demand was for amnesty for all of the students involved in the takeover...