Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bobo says he hopes to communicate that AfricanAmericans' "struggle against long, hard odds" andtheir successes and achievements "constitutepowerful exemplars of all that it is to be trulyfree and human...
...Rather than being isolated, Harvard Afro-American studies is increasingly seen as the model of the engaged, dynamic and innovative scholar," Bobo says. "My appointment, like that of all my colleagues in the Afro-American studies department, is joint with another department...
...Bobo says he wants to pass on to his students aconviction that scholarship can impact socialissues...
Kilson echoes Bobo's sentiments, saying hebelieves that his students have a moral obligationto help the marginalized sectors of society...
Organizers of the event compared the tone favorably to that of the Tuesday panel discussion between Winthrop Professor ofHistory Stephan A. Thernstrom, Boston Universityprofessor Abigail Thernstrom and Professor ofAfro-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo...