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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States vii foundation, commissioned Professor Nathan Huggins of Harvard University to prepare a report on the state of African American Studies at selected colleges and universities. Biddle also asked Huggins to comment on how Ford could work effectively to strengthen this interdisciplinary field. Huggins’ report provided a road map for Biddle and other program officers in the 1980s. It also proved to be controversial in some quarters of academe because it did not advocate the establishment of separate faculty lines for “Afro-Am” programs, as they were then known. Five years after the Huggins report was published in 1985, a second review of African American Studies was issued by the foundation. This time, three distinguished scholars—Professors Darlene Clark Hine, Nellie McKay, and Robert L.Harris Jr.—surveyed the field and offered fresh conclusions and recommendations. In 1994, the foundation asked two other outstanding researchers, Professors Robert O’ Meally and Valerie Smith, to conduct an assessment of the foundation’s work in African American Studies. And, most recently, Professors Richard Yarborough and Diane Pinderhughes completed a superb review of this critical interdisciplinary field in 2000. Now, for the first time, and thanks to the hard work and invaluable insights of Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin of Columbia University, the foundation is making all four reports available in a single volume. We believed that Griffin was the right choice because she 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. Importantly, too, Griffin began her career as a student of Professor Huggins. This publication—compiled with the assistance of the current program officer, Dr. Irma McClaurin—spans a quarter-century of provocative analysis about African American Studies and its place on American college campuses. While we do not necessarily agree with every conclusion contained in these reports,we are convinced that all of these remarkable scholars and public intellectuals offer important observations about a field of study that is transforming how we think about history—who deserves to be remembered, studied, and celebrated? Most important, African American Studies has offered and continues to offer a critical perspective on what constitutes the “American experience,” let alone the experiences of Africans in diaspora. We
viii Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States ignore this history at our peril. These reports provide valuable insights into African American Studies in the last decades of the 20th century, a century that W.E.B. Du Bois correctly characterized as one in which race would be the dominant problem.Sadly,the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina confirmed that the struggle for racial justice continues unabated in the 21st century. Alison R. Bernstein Vice President Knowledge, Creativity & Freedom Janice Petrovich Director Education, Sexuality, Religion Margaret Wilkerson Director Media, Arts & Culture
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