Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social horizons. These studies will release them from the psychological limitations of a restricted historical, ethnic, and mono-cultural bias. Such students will thus be better equipped to provide effective leadership in today's world. As the distinguished American Anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, once put it, "To give the Negro an appreciation of his past is to endow him with the confidence in his own position in this country and in the world which he must have and which he can best attain when he has available a foundation of scientific fact concerning the ancestral cultures of Africa and the survival...
...such occasion the best idea ought to carry the day. But students should not be governors of a Department. For the Scholar in this field, Kelly Miller's Appreciation of Carter Woodson, a black historian, should be a guide: "The largest measure of our admiration is due to the Negro (or white scholar) who can divest himself of momentary passion and prejudice, and with self-detachment, devote his powers to searching out and sifting the historical facts growing out of race relationship...." We all have a stake in a program of excellence, more likely insured by such standards. Indirectly such...
Outclassing them all was Jackie Robinson. Much of what Kahn says about the Dodger infielder will be familiar to former members of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. There is Robinson, first Negro in the majors: the racial abuse he endured on and off the field, his testiness, the later tragedy of his son's delinquency and fatal car crash. What Kahn does is rekindle for a younger, less patient generation the pride of a remarkable athlete who wanted to be recognized and paid as such. That Robinson eventually be came a prosperous, overweight Republican has a perfect...
...article suggested that obstacles to racial equality lie "as much in the character and way of life of the American Negro as in the indifference and hostility of the white community," and cited brain damage caused by improper prenatal care, inadequate nutrition, and childrearing practices as examples of some obstacles...
...would suggest to militant students, black and white, who are exercised over this issue that they undertake a symbolic political act of a higher order than yesterday's. Why not draw up a statement in which Negro student militants (and white too) who are outraged at Harvard investments in Southern Africa agree to surrender their Harvard scholarships and other financial stipends provided by Harvard...