Word: alie
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...Ali says the members of the BSA are united notby a common culture or common background, but bytheir common identity as Harvard students...
...traditional liberal bourgeoisintegrationist viewpoint is very readily availableto Harvard students," Ali says. "We also wanted tolook at the other ideas that have been part of theBlack freedom struggle...
...Harvard as an integrated school, asone where Black students are interacting withother students, the BSA is only part of the largerpicture," Ali says, adding that the BSA can onlybe seen as representing all of Harvard's Blackcommunity "if you see Black students as aghettoized, segregated people who are notinteracting with the rest of the University...
...What the BSA is doing is not the entire Blackexperience--it's also going to theclassroom...going to the same dining hall, eatingthe same food, attending a lot of the same socialevents," Ali says. "We were students at Harvardbefore we could be in the Black StudentsAssociation...
Bragg's year provided a stark contrast both tothe protesters of 1969 and to the presidentialterms before and after his. His predecessor,Zaheer R. Ali '94, helped bring controversialspeakers like Jeffries to campus and sponsoredanti-administration broadsides with titles like,"On the Harvard Plantation" and "The PeculiarInstitution...