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2 Robert L. Harris., Jr., Darlene Clark Hine, and Nellie McKay, Three Essays:
Black Studies in the United States (New York: The Ford Foundation, 1990),
pp. 7–14. Also included in the current volume, see pp. 100–137.
3 Harris, Hine, and McKay, pp. 15–16.
4 For the sake of convenience, we will use the term “Black Studies” when discussing
the field generally.
5 There are currently 8 universities that offer the Ph.D. in Black Studies: Clark Atlanta
(Africana Women’s Studies), Harvard, Michigan State, Northwestern,
Temple, UC Berkeley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Yale. A
full list of Black Studies programs funded by the Ford Foundation can be
found in Appendix A.
6 Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq. Prohibits discrimination
on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities
receiving federal funding.
7 The library is named for the noted African American historian who helped establish
ASRC curriculum and taught Black History at Cornell in the 1970s.
8 The Institute was renamed the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research in the 2003–04 academic year.
9 An Invitation to The Ford Foundation to Make a Grant in Support of Indiana
University’s Afro-American Studies Summer Seminar Program
(1996–1998), January 1995.
10 Ford Foundation Interim Report, Black Atlantic Seminar, Indiana
University/Bloomington, August 1997.
11 Departmental Mission Statement from the Indiana University Department of
Afro-American Studies Web site, July 1998.
12 Brochure. Department of Afro-American Studies at Indiana University. Bloomington,
August 1997.
13 CIP Humanities Study Group Report, Department of Afro-American Studies,
April 6, 1998, Indiana University Document, conveyed by Associate Dean,
M. Jeanne Peterson, College of Arts and Sciences, October 15, 1998.
14 Indiana University Documents on faculty teaching, departmental degree recipients,
majors, enrollments, etc., through the 1996–97 academic year.
15 “African Diaspora Studie—Multiculturalism and Identity Construction: The
Development of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Framework.” Percy C.
Hintzen and Margaret B. Wilkerson, Co-Principal Investigators, Proposed
Project September 1995–1998, submitted to the Ford foundation, n.d.
16 Barbara Christian reported that she was on forty-three Ph.D. committees;
Percy Hintzen notes that he served on sixteen. Since the African American