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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 89 try; to evaluate their present capacities and strengths; and to assess their future needs. From their reports, we hoped to gain a fuller understanding of the resources in the Black Studies field and its intellectual and institutional priorities over the next decade. Thus informed, the foundation would be better able to design the next phase of its continuing support for Black Studies in a way that responded to the concerns of scholar/teachers in the field. From the outset, it was recognized that the survey could not be comprehensive. Further, it was understood that the consultants’ reports would be confidential. But as the consultants traveled around the country visiting various Black Studies enterprises, word of the survey spread, and interest in their findings grew. The foundation received numerous inquiries asking if the reports would be released in some form. Since both the consultants and the individuals they interviewed had understood that these conversations, and the observations resulting from them, were confidential, we could not release the reports in full. Nevertheless, the reports contained a substantial amount of general information about the Black Studies field, and it seemed to us and to our consultants that these observations and assessments should be made public. The three essays that follow have been edited to delete all references to individuals and institutions except those cited to illustrate a general point. The essays vary in length and character partly because of the order in which the consultancies were undertaken and also because, apart from specific information requested on each site visited, we did not ask the consultants to adhere to a single format. Our first consultant, Darlene Clark Hine, John Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University, surveyed a substantial number of institutions, but time constraints prevented her from visiting the Midwestern universities she had hoped to include in the extensive report she submitted to the foundation. Nellie McKay, professor of American and Afro-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, agreed to cover Black Studies in the Midwest. Believing it unnecessary to restate at any length the general points Professor Hine had made about the state of Black Studies nationwide, Professor McKay concentrated on the distinguishing aspects of the field in the Midwest and on the sites she visited. Robert L Harris, Jr., director of the Africana Studies and
90 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States Research Center at Cornell University, prefaced his survey of Black Studies in the City University of New York and the State University of New York with a discussion of the development of Black Studies as an area of scholarly inquiry. His preface serves as a useful introduction to the two essays that follow. The foundation is pleased to publish these essays. We are grateful to the three scholars who served as our consultants for the intelligence and commitment they brought to the project. We believe they have made a significant contribution to Black Studies and to all who have an interest in promoting the health and continuing growth of the field. Franklin A. Thomas President, Ford Foundation
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