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23 Clarke and Plotkin, op. cit., pp. 28–39. This study does reveal, however, that the
small number of dropouts in this survey voiced complaints anticipating (mildly
and without political intent) Black student complaints of the sixties. This may
suggest that objective conditions were the same but expectations differed.
24 M. L. Dillon, “White Faces in Black Studies,” Commonweal XCI (January 30,
1970), pp. 476–479.
25 John Blassingame, ed., New Perspectives on Black Studies, Champaign, IL: University
of Illinois Press, 1971.
26 This crisis of identity is by no means unique to Black people; witness the upsurge
of “ethnicity” in the sixties and seventies.
27 This became a general criticism raised by Black and White scholars; for instance,
by John Blassingame, op. cit., pp. 75–168; by C. Vann Woodward, in
“Flight from History,” Nation CCI (September 20, 1969), pp. 142–146; and
by Benjamin Quarles.
28 Consider, for instance, the general treatment of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction,
a work that eventually brought about a general revision of the
history of that period.
29 Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Washington, DC: AMS
Press, 1933; W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Field and Function of the Negro College;”
in Herbert Aptheker, ed., The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques
1906–1960, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973, pp. 83–92.
30 Wilson Record, “Can Black Studies and Sociology Find Common Ground?”
Journal of Negro Education CLIV (Winter 1975), pp. 63–81; Morris
Janowitz and James Blackwell, eds., The Black Sociologists, Chicago, IL:
Chicago Center for Afro-American Studies and Research, 1973; Joyce
A. Ladner, ed., The Death of White Sociology, New York: Random
House, 1973; other divisions are in psychology, political science, and
African studies.
31 Harry Edwards, Black Students, New York: Free Press, 1970. The quotes are
from the dust jacket, which contains proposed curricula for Black Studies.
See also Nathan Hare, “The Sociological Study of Racial Conflict,” Phylon
XXXIII (Spring 1972), pp. 27–31.
32 The strengths in history had to do with the fact that Afro-American history
was a lively and developing area in American history. Black scholars, of
course, and many Whites—Leon Litwack, Winthrop Jordan, Eugene Genovese,
Herbert Gutman, August Meier, Lawrence Levine, etc.—were building
reputations in the field.
33 Maulana Ron Karenga, “The Black Community and the University: A Community
Organizer’s Perspective,” in Robinson, op. cit., pp. 37–54.