Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patterson said he believes the department should consider more specific areas of the concentration--either the historical and cultural aspects of Afro-American Studies or the "more contemporary sociopolitical" issues faced by blacks today...
Ricardo Guthrie '80, a concentrator in Afro-American Studies, said yesterday he believes the concentration "is not a traditional discipline but a meld of theory and practice, where students learn the practical problems and issues of the outside world...
Kenneth Walker '82, also a concentrator in Afro-American Studies, said at the meeting that concentrators choose the department "to make contact with the real world--and the department should help us make contact with this world...
Ferguson said four prospective faculty members for the Afro-American Studies Department said they did not want to join the department because of Cambridge's poor racial environment...
...Dorchester stood up and began shouting. "I'm a Vietnam vet and I don't have to take this shit anymore..." Brown stepped down from the podium, his face showing no emotion. The crowd of 700 sat in stunned silence while the tirade--a rambling and profane attack on American military policy--continued for about two minutes...