Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies - Ford Foundation

Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 251
Bethel Literary and Historical
Association, 92
Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and
Moynihan), 94
Biddle, Sheila, vi–vii, xv, xviii, xix, xx
biology, 22
Bischoff, Phyllis, 196
“Black Agenda for the 21st Century:
Toward a Synthesis of Culture, History,
and Social Policy” conference,
213, 216–18, 222
Black History Month (formerly Negro History
Month), 92
Black migration northward, 18, 93
Black Periodical Literature Project, 110
Black Power, 27
Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 76n.28
The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies
and Research, xxiii n.4, 153–54
Black scholars
bias of, presumed, 44, 76n.28
collaboration by, 110–11, 133–37
criticism of, 120–21, 122n.2
Harris, Hine, McKay Report on, 107–11
isolated/marginalized, 132–33
problems of, 68–69
scarcity, 7–8, 37–38, 67–68, 73, 107, 115
scholarships/fellowships for, 108
Black Student Alliance, xi, 34–35
Black student movement
at colleges vs. universities, 31, 75n.14
Edwards on, 46
Harris, Hine, McKay Report on, 95–97
Huggins Report on, 25–28, 74n.10
Black students
alienated/isolated, 30, 39–40, 49–50,
65–66, 69, 76n.23
career-oriented, 47, 63, 69, 72, 77n.38
enrollment, 18–20, 30, 65, 77n.42, 171
fellowships for, 7–8, 108
humanities seen as racist, 24–25
identity of, 41–43
malaise among, 38–40, 76n.23
problems of, 19–20, 69–70 (see also
Black student movement; Black students,
alienated/isolated above)
racial hostility toward, 65, 77n.43
“turf”/autonomy for, 39–41, 47,
49–51, 58
Black Studies. See also Black Women’s
Studies
abandoned/ridiculed, 41
“Black Studies: An Overview” (Hine),
xvi, xix, 81–83, 89, 100–111
“Black Studies in the Midwest”
(McKay), xvi, 83–84, 89, 112–16
continuing challenges for, 231–38
curriculum, 104–6, 110, 112
debate/disruptions over, 31, 75n.14
Edwards on, 46
as field vs. discipline, 104
Ford Foundation’s role in institutionalizing,
xi–xv, xxiv n.9
funding’s influence on political orientation,
xxii–xxiii n.3
“The Intellectual and Institutional Development
of Africana Studies” (Harris),
xvi, 82–83, 89–99, 158n.2, 168
as intellectually stimulating, 103–4
Ph.D.s in, 106–7, 170, 226–27n.5,
233, 238nn.3–4 (see also specific
universities)
popularity of classes, 116
research tools, 131–32
stages of development, 82–83, 91–98,
102, 128–29, 168
star system’s effects, 83–84, 115
summary of Ford-funded programs,
244–47 (table)
undergraduate/graduate degree programs,
104–7, 110, 112
university administrators’ attitude toward,
102–3, 113–14
use of term, xxiii n.1, 101, 169–70
Black Studies: Three Essays. See Harris,
Hine, McKay Report
Black Women in America (Hine), 132
Black Women’s Studies, 6, 82, 108–10
Blassingame, John, xx, 53, 110
Blount, Marcellus, 151
Bobo, Larry, 200, 202
Bok, Derek, 59