Word: diaspora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever their talents and tenets, these refugees shared the experience of the shipwrecked. Anthony Heilbut, whose parents were Berlin emigres, has exercised impressive, if indulgent scholarship, and even a touch of poetry, to get to the heart of this diaspora...
...Black group gathered momentum, it formed its own cultural groups, including Kuumba. Black C.A.S.T., and Diaspora, a Black literary magazine. Despite their cultural orientation, these groups were initially political. The Kuumba sisters, for example, frequently sang in prisons and at political rallies, says Diane A. Crawford '83, the group's former president. Other groups, although less overtly political, were at least implicitly so in their efforts to define a unique cultural identify or "Black Nationalism." Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III believes these cultural groups were highly influenced by the emergence of radical basis within Black society, their growth...
...late 1970s, however, these groups increasingly as contact with the BSA and, at the same time, largely shed their political undertones. Recent leaders of Kuumba, Diaspora and Black C.A.S.T. agree that their respective organizations have become more exclusively artistic endeavors. "The Black contribution to American art is important enough and of itself to be the sole concern of Black C.A.S.T., former president Patricia S. Bellinger '83 says, adding "politics is not higher than...
More cautious about defining themselves by their race, incoming Black students today are more likely to join an all-Black cultural group than a political one, several Black leaders say. These groups appear less threatening since Black students, "can join without buying an ideology," says Gomes. A member of Diaspora agrees, saying, "We don't tell anyone they're politically incorrect" In addition, these more conservative--and often more affluent--Black students have formed new types of groups such as the Percy C. Julian Society, a Black pre-med support group, and intercollegiate Black fraternities and sororities. By the late...
...Diaspora--This literary magazine aims to provide a forum for Black writers and themes particular to the Black experience. The magazine, a collection of prose and poetry, is published once or twice each year depending on contributions...