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Then, Zaheer Ali returned my phone call. But he has a thesis due, too, in Afro-American studies...
...units of ROTC cancelled their contracts. Harvard got an Afro-American Studies department. And the administration suffered a devastating attack which it had earlier that same year declared to be "impossible" at Harvard...
...Afro-American Studies 136x--Fictions of Race, Facts of Racism...
...offer anything but an easy welcome. Huey, named for former Black Panther Huey P. Newton, sees a man washing his car and shrieks in terror, "It's Bull Connor with a fire hose!" Later he starts a one-boy "Klanwatch." Cindy, a pony-tailed blond, can't believe her Afro-crowned neighbor, Jazmine, is half-black: "I just figured you were having a really bad hair...
Russia is wary of listening to America's views on tolerance and even when I am trying to explain the difference between "Afro-American" and "nigger," Russians sometimes make me feel as though I am a cultural imperialist. In this non-American society, it is incredibly difficult--and most of the time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter...