Word: afros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even if high school was "a means to an end," as he says, it did make him into who he is today, renewing his interest in his African roots. It crystallized his interest in Afro-American history and culture, and externally at least, Americanized...
...Ashong appears to be a typical American college student. He wears a black leather jacket and chunky loafers. He loves rap and Prince and "In Living Color." He has pool parties each summer. His accent--long a's and clipped o's--is buried beneath student slang and an Afro-American inflection...
...catches himself and eases off, slipping from declaration into explanation. "I've been here since I was three years old on and off, so I definitely do have ties to American culture, especially strong ties and affinity to Afro American culture," he says...
...weeks after the audition, Ashong didn't hear from the studio. It didn't really matter, he figured. He'd just go back to school, finish up his thesis, a musical on identity issues facing Africans and Afro-Americans, and graduate...
When Henry Louis Gates Jr. became chair of the Afro-American studies department in 1991, he made luring the renowned University of Chicago professor William Julius Wilson to Cambridge one of his priorities...