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...Adams House Lower Common Room was packed last night as black and Jewish students came together with Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 to discuss the common experience of being a minority at Harvard...
Through programs like the Afro-American Studies department, the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and Kuumba, Winfrey says Harvard's commitment to black history and culture serves as an international example...
Other pioneering black students in the contemporary era experienced similarly racist attitudes at the College, along with a sharp sense of isolation. In "Travels With Charlie: In Search of Afro-America" Herbert W. Nickens '69 recalled his painful adjustment freshman year...
Over the course of the next 70 years, clashesconcerning the function of race on campus haveexpanded to include scholarly debate and broadsocial activism. In the 1960s, the Afro-AmericanStudies Department was created, attracting suchluminaries as Professor of Afro-American Studiesand History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Professorof Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. AnthonyAppiah and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of theHumanities Henry Louis Gates...
Carine M. Williams '00 is an Afro-American studies and social anthropology concentrator residing in Leverett House. Her column will appear on alternate Wednesdays...