Tag: African/Afro/Black Studies: Page 53

Faculty & Staff

Dual Dilemma

Dual DilemmaBlack faculty work to ensure access, while making the academy hospitable to minority faculty, students”Like most non-Blacks, I guess, I have, anyway, always thought that Afro-American Studies is a pseudo-discipline, invented by guilty White liberals as a way of keeping Black intellectuals out of trouble and giving them a shot at holding professorships at […]

October 23, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Knox’s Little Secret

Knox’s Little SecretIllinois liberal arts college succeeds in hiring, retaining African American facultyA recent nationwide survey reported that, among universities, New York’s Columbia University and, among colleges, Pennsylvania’s Haverford College had the highest percentages of African American faculty in the nation, with 4.3 percent and 7.9 percent, respectively.But there’s another institution that has both schools […]

September 11, 2002

African-American

A Passion for Cuba

A Passion for CubaUniversity of Connecticut music professor explores African roots in the island nation      Dr. Robert Stephens, professor of music at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and interim director of the school’s Institute for African American Studies, says he has always had a passion for Cuba. That passion — indulged to the fullest in his […]

August 14, 2002

African-American

Leadership Institute Challenges Students to Think Globally

Leadership Institute Challenges Students to Think GloballyBy Gabrielle FinleyNEW YORKFor Charles Reynolds, attending the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Institute last month was a humbling experience, one that opened his eyes to a more culturally diverse world.“There are many interesting people around the world that are trying to make a difference,” says Reynolds, a junior finance […]

August 14, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Engaging in Academic Racial Profiling

Engaging in Academic Racial ProfilingSUNY Trustee Candace de Russy is quoted in Newsday (Feb. 4, 2002) as stating, “… most Black studies departments are flabby, feel-good programs that carry anti-American bias and do little to advance hard knowledge.” And she further asserts, “Black studies departments became therapeutic in nature, and the goal became consciousness raising […]

June 5, 2002

African-American

Keeping Crow Alive

Keeping Crow AliveA Ferris State University museum aims to use the pain of racist and offensive material to educate and foster racial healing“There is still a debate about whether Black people should use this material in any way other than to destroy it, or whether they don’t belong in a museum or being resold by Black […]

June 5, 2002

African-American

Dr. Cornel West, in His Own Words

Dr. Cornel West, in His Own WordsBefore giving the keynote address at the conference “The State of the African American Professoriate,” held at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., Dr. Cornel West spoke with reporters, primarily about the circumstances surrounding his much-publicized departure from Harvard University.A lot of people may feel, given your recent experience at […]

May 22, 2002

African-American

A Second Calling

A Second CallingDr. Johnnetta Cole to lead all-female Bennett CollegeBy Allison ForemanGREENSBORO, N.C.Troubled Bennett College received some new hope last month when it named Dr. Johnnetta Cole as its new president. Cole, best known for her 10 years as president of Spelman College, will step into her new post July 15. She will replace Interim […]

May 22, 2002

African-American

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Kenneth Goings has been named chairman of the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. Goings earned a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University.Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart has been named director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in […]

May 8, 2002

African-American

The Afro-Mestizo Connection

The Afro-Mestizo ConnectionScholars team up to study Southern Mexico’s African rootsAcapulco has been billed as “the resort that never sleeps.” It’s the playground of the wealthy, home to the glittering “Golden Zone” shopping district, nightclubs and restaurants too numerous to count — and, just outside the city limits, a group of 98 percent Black towns […]

May 8, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]

May 8, 2002

African-American

Leaving for Princeton, West Says Too Much Made Of His Dispute With Harvard President

Leaving for Princeton, West Says Too Much Made Of His Dispute With Harvard PresidentMAHWAH, N.J.Harvard scholar Dr. Cornel West says the university’s president was largely responsible for his move to Princeton but that too much has been made of their dispute. After giving a lecture late last month at Ramapo College’s conference “State of the […]

May 8, 2002