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White Money/Black Power The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education

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ISBN-10: 0807032719

ISBN-13: 9780807032718

Edition: 2007

Authors: Noliwe Rooks

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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 refused to take no for an answer. Noliwe M. Rooks argues for the recognition of another story, which proves that many of the programs that survived actually began as a result of white philanthropy. With unflinching honesty, Rooks shows that the only way to create a stable future for African American studies is by confronting its complex past. "Rooks is a serious scholar and insider of African American studies, and this book is full of deep insight and sharp analysis."--Cornel West "A provocative and original history of the relationship…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 2/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638

White Money/Black Power: The Ford Foundation and Black Studies
A Story to Pass On
Remembering Freedom
Race, Higher Education, and the American University
Rise of the Black Student Movement
McGeorge Bundy, the Ford Foundation, and Black Studies
By Any Means Necessary: Student Protest and the Birth of Black Studies
Prelude to a Strike
San Francisco State: An Unlikely Place for a Revolution
The White Student Protest Movement: Port Huron Statement
The Strike in Black and White
Cornell University
Nation Building in the Belly of the Beast
Race, Rebellion, and Black Studies
Structured Equality: Methodologies of Blackness in the Early Years
The Ford Foundation and Black Studies: The Yale Conference
McGeorge Bundy and Black Power
Cleveland: Background of an Election
Ocean Hill-Brownsville
Black Studies in White and Black: The Ford Foundation Funds Black Studies
Black Studies Grant Making and the Ford Foundation
White Philanthropy and Black Education: An Overview
The First Round of Grants in Black Studies
Looking Back and Wondering: Surveying the Field Five Years Later
Maybe Wrong, but Never in Doubt
The Legacy in the Present
Travels in Time: Black Studies, African Americans, and Affirmative Action
Ford, Black Students, and the Post-Civil Rights Era
Stories from the Front Lines: African American Studies in Contemporary America
Bakke, Affirmative Action, and Higher Education, 1970-2003
From Black Studies to African Diaspora Studies: A Shift in Perspective
Everything and Nothing at All: Race, Black Studies, and Higher Education Today
Diversity in Black
Getting There from Here: The Future of African American Studies
Profiles in Diversity in Higher Education, or, What's Race Got to Do with It?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index