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...years in the making, the report also encouraged the College to step up its efforts in recruiting minority faculty and students—a recommendation that came at a time when the Department of Afro-American Studies was widely identified as a trouble spot...
...Special Ministry for Human Rights and distributed to members of Congress, police chiefs, newspaper editors and other opinion leaders, the Lula administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese equivalent of the N word. But the list, whose heading includes the phrase politically correct, goes on to advise against using drunks, because even alcoholics deserve respect; Africans, because the term diminishes individual nationalities; old people, because elderly doesn't carry as much stigma...
Although Gates has never won a Pulitzer himself, he is a prolific writer. He has authored a dozen books, including “The Signifying Monkey: Towards A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism,” for which he received the American Book Award...
Arriving at Harvard in 1991, Gates told The Crimson that he wanted to build the department by recruiting “the most sophisticated scholars in Afro-American Studies at work today...
...Department Chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. said, however, that “the Afro Am Department has excellent relations with President Summers...