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Author Rooks, Noliwe, 1963-

Title White money/Black power : the surprising history of African American studies and the crisis of race in higher education / Noliwe M. Rooks
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages)
Contents 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 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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index
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Subject Ford Foundation -- History -- 20th century
Ford Foundation
African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- History -- 20th century
Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African American college students -- History -- 20th century
Student movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American college students
African Americans -- Education (Higher)
African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Black power
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
Race relations
Student movements
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005014708
ISBN 9780807032701
0807032700
9780807032756
0807032751