Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies - Ford Foundation

240 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States
Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern.
She is a past president of the Organization of American Historians and the
SouthernHistoricalAssociation.HerpublicationsincludeTheAfricanAmerican
Odyssey; Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History;
A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men’s History and Masculinity;
and A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America.
The late Nathan Huggins (d. 1989) was the Director of the Harvard University
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at the time he wrote the Ford report. His
writings on Black historical and contemporary figures included both academic
prose and shorter books for young adults. He was the author of Black
Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery and editor of W. E. B. Du
Bois: Writings; Malcolm X: Militant Black Leader; Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist
Leader; Alex Haley; and Alice Walker.
The late Nellie Y. McKay (d. 2006) was the Evjue Professor of American and
African American Literature at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she
helped to establish an African American literature curriculum in the department
of Afro-American studies. She received many teaching awards, including
honors from University of Wisconsin System and Phi Beta Kappa.She was
also the president of the Midwest Consortium of Black Studies and helped to
develop similar organizations. Professor McKay published more than 60 essays
and book and journal articles on important figures in black women’s literature.
She is the author of Jean Toomer,Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and
Work, 1894–1936 (1984),the editor of Critical Essays on Toni Morrison (1988),
and the co-editor The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature.
Robert O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Director
of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. He is the author
of The Craft of Ralph Ellison; Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie
Holiday; Tales of the Congaree, and the editor of The Jazz Cadence of American
Culture and Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies. His work as
co-producer on the CD box-set, The Jazz Singers, earned him a Grammy
nomination. O’Meally has also written the liner notes for a Sony/Columbia