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...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...
...people in a small place, every event is a domestic event, they cannot see that they might be part of a chain of something," says Jamaica Kincaid...
...outrage. I personally take issue with any of Hepps's statements, for I am a biracial woman who also happens to be Jewish. When my sisters and I were young, my mother, who is of Russian Jewish decent, and my father, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist from Jamaica, made the mutual decision to raise the three of us in the Jewish faith. I attended Hebrew school for years, and became a bat mitzvah at age 13. I continue to observe the Jewish holidays and consider Judaism to be a central aspect of my personal identity...
...past 20 years, as the number of mixed-race marriages has increased dramatically, to more than 3 million by some estimates, attitudes among all racial groups have evolved. Tracey Mandell, 26, is an English instructor at Loyola Marymount University. Her partner Michael Bartley is a black man from Jamaica, and their son Noah is coming up on his first birthday. Mandell remembers last March, when she and members of her family were taking a get-acquainted tour of the maternity ward at Santa Monica Hospital. "There were about 50 couples on the tour," she says. "At least half of them...
Students also perform their clinicals at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, the Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Center, local District Attorney's offices, Tenant Advocacy Project, and numerous other community advocacy organizations...