Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Harvard deserves no special credit for experimental relocation efforts which did not work because, the report says, "They did not meet the needs of the community...
...back and see slavery as quite a magnificent institution. That institution brought out the internal stamina of a people corporately. Any group that could go through slavery demonstrates a tremendous survival power, a tremendous willingness to live, and a capacity to struggle..." Harding replies that "it takes a very special perspective to re-read and re-think and in many ways recreate the historical experience of slavery in order to rejoice in it. It's a little too easy in order to rejoice in it. It's a little too easy to celebrate a past that others went through...
...make black institutions the major innovators." The talk proceeds to a discussion of a new kind of experimental black university. Its program, as Howard outlines it, would be "a largely off-campus experience organically rooted in black culture," would have "a comparative perspective," and place special emphasis on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. "The experiences of the outsider, of the exploited and the marginal groups would be compared with the experiences of those who had and exercised power." Such an institution "would be heavily engaged in service...
Black students and others seriously concerned about them should read this booklet--and read it more than once. I cannot stop without recommending, too, Harding's "Open Letter to Black Students in the North," the lead piece in the second special university issue of Negro Digest (March 1969). This is an important communique, and one that Harding knows will infuriate many of the black militants who scream for new Afro-American studies departments to spring up fully-armed on northern campuses overnight like Athena from the head of Zeus. The issues Harding raises here will not be popular, but they...
Rosovsky, who was chairman of the special committee that reported on African and Afro-American Studies in January, said that his resignation came as a result of the Faculty's vote on Tuesday to change the structure of the AAS department...