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The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race and Higher Education
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February 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0807032700
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Non-Fiction
The history of African American Studies is often told as a
heroic tale, with compelling images of black power and
passionate African American students who refuse to take "no"
for an answer. Noliwe M. Rooks argues for the recognition of
another story that proves that many of the programs that
survived were actually begun due to heavy funding from the
Ford Foundation or, put another way, as a result of white
philanthropy. Today, many students in African American Studies courses are
white, and an increasing number of black students come from
Africa or the Caribbean, not the United States. This
shift�which makes the survival of the discipline contingent
on non�African American students�means that "blackness can
mean everything and, at the same time, nothing at all." While the Ford Foundation provided much-needed funding, its
strategies, aimed at addressing America"s "race problem,"
have left African American Studies struggling to define its
identity in light of the changes it faces today. With
unflinching honesty, Rooks shows that the only way to create
a stable future for African American Studies is through
confronting its complex past.
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