Title:	White money/Black power :
Other Titles:	The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education
Authors:	Noliwe M., Rooks
Keywords:	African Americans— Study and teaching (Higher)—History—20th century
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Noliwe M. Rooks
Description:	In 1968, while under the leadership of McGeorge Bundy, the former national security advisor in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, the Ford Foundation began to craft and then fund a strategy aimed at ensuring a complication-free birth and life for African American Studies on college campuses. It was an act that would be denounced by the United States Congress as an attempt at social engineering. In keeping with the late-1960s world-view, African American Studies (then termed Black Studies) was envisioned and proposed by the Ford Foundation as a means to desegregate and integrate the student bodies, faculties, and curricula of colleges and universities in ways that would mirror the public school systems that had been ordered by the Supreme Court to free themselves from “separate but equal” racial educational systems. Within that context, African American Studies programs were viewed as a positive response to the increasingly strident calls for social and political redress made by African American students, as well as a means of responding to the unprecedented increase in the numbers of African American students entering colleges and universities during that politically turbulent period.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10015
ISBN:	978-0-8070-3271-8
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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