Word: afros
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...Medicine, [Afro-American] studies, it’s the same” said Dr. Lawrence Cohn, the chief of cardiac surgery at Brigham. “If you’re good, people try to lure you away. You can use that for your advantage...
...mission of ethnic studies is to diversify the academic curriculum to include critical perspectives of ethnic communities that have been historically neglected by Euro-centric academia and to examine the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality. Ethnic studies, the collective term that commonly refers to Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, has often been connected to minority communities, but the scholarship seeks to diversify the curriculum to examine the experiences and perspectives of all ethnic groups, including “white” ethnic groups such as Irish and Jewish Americans. In essence, ethnic studies...
Aside from the Afro-American Studies Department (which was reluctantly established as the result of a University Hall student sit-in and was largely under-funded until the arrival of Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in 1991), Harvard has never fully supported ethnic studies. As a result, there are only 14 classes specifically related to Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies. No courses focus on the comprehensive history of Asian Americans, Latinos, or Native Americans. The lack of any cohesive Native American Studies curriculum is particularly disturbing since the 1650 Charter of Harvard...
...University distributes a booklet by the Committee on Ethnic Studies (CES) outlining over 90 courses available in ethnic studies at Harvard, from ethnic conflicts around the world to Ukrainian literature. In a booklet that is supposed to outline courses in Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, why is “Questions of Identity in Central European Modernist Fiction” listed when there is only one course focusing on Latino studies? Harvard likes to be unique, but its interpretation of ethnic studies as any course related to ethnicity only confuses students, blurring area studies and ethnic...
...have been achieved in spring 2001 when the certificate was approved by both the CES and Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, but unfortunately, the new chair of the CES—Werner Sollors, who is also a professor of Afro-American studies—decided to review the certificate proposal again this year. As with most proposals stuck in committee, no progress has been made...