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...could double the number of courses in Afro-Am these days and still have the students to fill them," says Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History David W. Blight, who will leave Harvard this fall for a tenure-track position at Amherst...
...department, meanwhile, will be left with only two junior members next year when Blight leaves. One of those, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology Roderick J. Harrison '70-'71, was denied promotion to the associate level and will depart after next year...
...these days would dapper Duke Ellington feel at ease taking the A train 2 1/2 miles north from midtown Manhattan to black Harlem? Not if he believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic, a maximum-security prison for the American Dream's unruly losers. Why would a white person...
...Assistant Professor of Afro-AmericanStudies David W. Blight said his courses focus onthe issues raised by AWARE week all the time. But,he said, "I will urge the students to carry theawareness beyond my class...
...city schools are less centers of learning than custodial institutions complete with wardens (principals) and guards (teachers) striving to control a mob of prisoners (students), some so preoccupied with the three Cs -- crack, crime and casual sex -- that they have no time for the three Rs. But the educational blight is not confined to underclass ghettos and barrios. Despite efforts to upgrade the math skills of U.S. students, a recent survey indicates that nearly half of American 17-year-olds cannot perform simple calculations that are normally learned in junior high school. Other surveys have documented equally dreary student performance...