Word: afros
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...ethnic studies movement, one example of a cause that interests students of many different backgrounds, has gone through many incarnations without much success. But in recent months, discussion of minority matters has risen to a fever pitch because of the departure of West, a leading light of the Harvard Afro-American studies department that until recently was considered an uncrackable diamond...
...that people in the “Real World”—at least, those who read the Times—care when men of brilliance and distinction like West or Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 or Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah leave Harvard. The particular Ivy League name they bear is newsworthy in the same way as a Scottie Pippen trade. The second answer is that people in the “Real World” are attracted to controversy and stories...
...longer-student-centered project with few real long-term benefits—have really come to fruition yet. Following the departure of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, this leaves Summers in an unenviable public relations position: with his predecessor’s acclaimed Afro-American studies department in flux, several unfortunately well-publicized interpersonal gaffes, and the student body’s affections rapidly turning sour...
Brooks Washington, a pre-frosh from San Francisco, expressed his disappointment over the imminent departures of West and Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...strength of Harvard’s Afro-American studies department had been one of the selling points that had first attracted him to Harvard, Washington said...