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...department also needs someone who is an Africanist," concentrators say. African historians in the History department will not sufficiently connect African history with the culture of Black Americans...
...committee does not consider it a primary focus to find an Africanist for the department...
...concepts of Nazism and academic freedom are mutually exclusive. President Bok would tolerate the presence of a Nazi, because he would not be directly threatened by a Nazi's way of thinking. Thus the concept of academic freedom is racist. Ephraim Isaac is "unqualified" because he is an "Africanist," whereas a Nazi can be qualified. However Ephraim Isaac was only going to teach, not develop policy to impose on Third World people throughout the world...
Like its counterparts abroad, the South African scholarship program aims at the creation of a Western-educated and oriented African and Colored elite which can act as a "third force" between die-hard Afrikaaners and the forces of national liberation led by the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress. The U.S. government and business interests have wanted for a long time to reform apartheid just enough to stabilize it and maintain the enormous superprofits extracted from the black South African workforce. Harvard's plan plays right into this neo-colonialist strategy, by supplying partners with black forces...
...Afro-Am students and faculty charged that the University had previously decided not to tenure an Africanist and to offer only joint appointments (Isaacs had requested a single appointment in Afro-Am). They pointed to the unusual time lapse between tenure recommendation and decision as further evidence of malice. But Rosovsky and Bok countered that the delays occurred because of jurisdictional problems created when one of the bewildering array of committees guiding Afro-Am was dissolved and replaced by an interdepartmental search committee. They denied charges of racism, but Isaacs filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...