Word: appiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, others feel the need to minimize differences in academic achievement more directly, by explaining away these discrepancies. Afro-American Studies Professor K. Anthony Appiah suggested that Black and Latino students performed less well than their Asian and white counterparts because racist incidents and innuendoes make it hard to concentrate on academics. In an effort to diffuse the phenomenon of Asian success, president of the Asian American Association Joan Cheng '95 pathologized the penchant of her Asian American peers to achieve academically. As an Asian, she explains, "if you don't do well, you feel guilty...
...report will probably have the greatest impact on a committee, chaired by Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, which is charged with formulating a long-term scheme for the College's race relations policy. It is unclear whether the committee will release any recommendations before the end of the semester...
...Buell] is finishing a draft of our first thoughts," said Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, a member of the subcommittee. He added that a draft will be presented to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles soon...
Faculty in attendance included Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, Professor of Government Jorge L. Dominguez, Professor of English Marjorie Garber, Professor of Sociology Aage B. Sorensen and Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences Mary C. Waters...
After several years of protests, which culminated in the occupation of University Hall in 1990, the University tenured DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah...