Word: cornel
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Wilson is the most recent addition to Harvard's star collection of scholars in Afro-American studies. Joining him are Professor of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah; Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74, snagged from Princeton in 1995; the recently imported Lawrence D. Bobo, formerly of the University of California at Los Angeles and Visiting Lecturer on Afro-American Studies Jamaica Kincaid...
...will to challenge authority. Harvard generally teaches its students that upon graduation they are to seize the rewards available to capitalist elites, not that they are responsible for identifying American dilemmas and agitating to solve them. One of the few voices of dissent at the College is Professor Cornel West, who writes that America is currently a "twilight civilization" that is in dire need of fundamental re-evaluation...
...fiscal feasibility of this proposal, however, is unlikely. The Afro-American Studies department successfully appointed prominent scholars Cornel West, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, William Julius Wilson and Lawrence Bobo using its available FTUs jointly, with other departments. Unfortunately, the Afro-American studies will soon exhaust its available FTUs and face the same difficulties as other departments in recruiting minority and female scholars...
...call to drop the charges against these men has been endorsed by both DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies and of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74, according to Daley...
...initiated a united-front speakout around the slogan "Drop All Charges Against the Chicago Anti-Klan Three" for April 24, at 12 noon, outside the Science Center. The speak-out has been endorsed by the Black Students Association, the Harvard College Democrats and professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West...