Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies - Ford Foundation

“No area of scholarship in higher education
grant making has received more sustained
attention from the Ford Foundation than
African American Studies.”
Inclusive Scholarship
Developing Black Studies
in the United States
Part of the Ford Foundation’s core mission is to share lessons
learned from our grant-making activities. We assess projects
and more comprehensive initiatives in a variety of ways, typically
including using standard evidence-based methodologies and
evaluation techniques drawn from the social sciences. On occasion,
we also ask distinguished scholars, policy experts, seasoned
practitioners and community-based activists to review a body
of work and provide commentaries on what they think has been
accomplished and what challenges remain.
In the past 25 years, no area of scholarship in higher education grant
making has received more sustained attention from the foundation
than African American Studies. Now, for the first time, we are
making four distinguished reports on our African American Studies
grant making available in a single volume. Professor Farah Jasmine
Griffin of Columbia University, who represents the first generation
of scholars who were thoroughly exposed to, grew up with and
became committed to African American Studies as a significant
interdisciplinary field, provides introductions and contemporary
insights into the reports.
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