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...approach is to embrace mainstream culture, the sitcoms, the Coca-Cola, the straight-ahead pop music and, of course, the English language. The other way is to assert your own identity, your own heritage, and compel the rest of America to taste your spices, to dance to your Afro-Cuban grooves. Estefan has done both. From the mid-1980s on, her work with the Miami Sound Machine consisted mostly of processed American-style dance music seasoned with punchy Latin rhythms. "She was the first to take Latin-influenced music, the heavy percussion sounds, mainstream," says Jon Secada, a singer-songwriter...
...First marriages as a percentage of all marriages involving one Afro-American...
...courses listed in the brochure "Ethnic Studies at Harvard" which are not in the Afro-American Studies Department, only 25 meet the students of ethnic studies established by Harvard's student advocates and programs at other schools...
Some academics laud the report as an important statement coming at a critical time for affirmative action. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, says Rudenstine gets an "A+" for his efforts in promoting diversity, adding that he believes Rudenstine will one day be considered a truly great president...
...success story has clearly been in the Department of Afro-American Studies. Working with Gates since the beginning of his tenure, Rudenstine has amassed a "dream team," arguably the most impressive list of Afro-American scholars in the world...