Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirty years after its founding, the Afro-American studies department has become one of the best in the nation--an unexpected feat, considering its controversial creation...
Today, only a handful of students and scholars are interested in fighting for ethnic studies as a department. Others claim the study of American ethnicity should take place within existing disciplines...
SASI sometimes collaborated with the Academic Affairs Committee, although its aims are somewhat different, Agarwal said. SASI works for South Asian regional studies, not South Asian-American studies. But Agarwal, too, thinks it is difficult to organize students behind academic issues...
...activism that gave rise to the Afro-American Studies Department 30 years ago was very different from current movements, says Admissions Officer David L. Evans...
...Harvard, some of these events led to the establishment of what would eventually become one of most lauded African-American studies departments in the country...