Word: isaac
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...what "interested parties were pressing for". This reinforces the statements of old members of the Association of African and Afro-American Students that the organization was heavily pan-Africanist in its political outlook. When the standing committee began its search for faculty to teach in the new department, Ephraim Isaac was one of the first asked. He was doubtful at that time, he says, about whether the department's perspective included his background of expertise; Richard Musgrave, the chairman of the standing committee, indicated to Isaac that his knowledge and skills would be invaluable to the department. In the report...
This is what the department undertook to do in its first years. Ephraim Isaac taught courses in African languages, religions, history and civilizations. Three of the four full-time instructors in the first year taught courses outside the realm of the United States, and in the later years more faculty with expertise in African and the Caribbean came into the department. This occurred through the close interaction of the standing committee and the department, which meant the involvement of students and faculty inside and outside the department. It was no accident that the department had a strong African and Third...
Tenure for Isaac, accomplished linguist...
...appreciate your fair coverage on November 18 of the forum on "Southern Africa and Racism in the U.S. and Harvard" sponsored by the Committee Against Racism (CAR), with Professor Ephraim Isaac of the Afro-American Studies Department and Ken Carstens of the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa as principal speakers. We want to make one clarification to prevent a possible misunderstanding. You state that Dr. Isaac "cited the language departments as one example of racism at Harvard." It should be emphasized, as you indicate later in the article, that Isaac spoke very highly of the value...
While Dr. Isaac never referred to himself at our forum, CAR believes this university's highly controversial and irregular refusal to grant him tenure is a blatant example of Harvard's racism. Professor Isaac is a world-renowned scholar with excellent teaching credentials. His specialty is classical Ethiopic and the history of its literature. The dismissal of this popular teacher, and the virtual end of indigenous African language-literature teaching it represents, speaks loudly of Harvard's prejudice against the interests and cultures of black people...