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...campuses. The fury of the student body at Harvard was a factor in a host of major decisions during that time, from the selection of Derek C. Bok as the University's 25th president to the move to kick ROTC off campus to the creation of the Department of Afro-American Studies...
...conference, more than 100 students of all different races and class years packed the Winthrop Junior Common Room to hear Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 and Education 4 Action Coordinator Faith E. Adele '86 speak about the necessity of an inclusive, and grassroots, approach to social activism. The students then clustered in small groups to get goals and brainstorm tactics...
Finally, in distinguishing between concentrations in Afro-American and Women's Studies but not ethnic studies, the staff draws an arbitrary and hollow line. Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans have also faced extreme discrimination in our society, discrimination that seems to be ignored by the staff in its classifications...
According to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, ethnic studies comprises Afro-American Studies, American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American...
Those who disagree with our argument are likely to point to the existence of the Afro-American Studies Department and the Committee on Women's Studies as strong evidence that it is necessary and important to focus on the experience of specific minorities in American society. There are fundamental differences, however, between the experiences of blacks and women, and, say, Italians, Asians or Latinos. To begin with, blacks are the only members of American society, besides Native Americans, who did not come to this country voluntarily. In fact, most blacks were brought here in a tragic and violent nature...