Word: afros
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Standing barefoot next to Teddy on that bench, I reflected on something Teddy said earlier in the day. In a surprising demonstration of the practical utility of philosophy as a field of study, Teddy, a joint concentrator in Afro-American studies and philosophy, told me the enlightened reasons why he never yields to societal pressures to walk his bare feet to the mall, buy himself a pair of shoes and put them...
...last fall, Afro-American Studies 10: Introduction to Afro-American Studies, violated fire codes for two weeks, as 150 more students than capacity showed up to class in Lowell Lecture Hall. The University had difficulty finding another location for the class and eventually settled on St. Paul’s Church, a building rarely used for classroom space...
...their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation--the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s--has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African-American groups--the N.A.A.C.P., core--that protested the movies' sex, violence and criminal heroes.) Blaxploitation movies didn...
...their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation - the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s - has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African-American groups - the N.A.A.C.P., core - that protested the movies' sex, violence and criminal heroes.) Blaxploitation movies didn...
...afro." Tito Mboweni, South African Reserve Bank governor, on what the African Union's proposed common currency should be called