White Money/Black Power

by ROOKS, NOLIWE

• ISBN13: 9780807032718
• ISBN10: 0807032719
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-02-15
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

The untold story of why and how white philanthropy helped create African American studiesThe 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.

Author Biography

Noliwe M. Rooks is associate director of African American studies at Princeton University. The author of Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women and Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them, she lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

White Money/Black Power: The Ford Foundation and Black Studies	p. 1
A Story to Pass On	p. 6
Remembering Freedom	p. 9
Race, Higher Education, and the American University	p. 13
Rise of the Black Student Movement	p. 15
McGeorge Bundy, the Ford Foundation, and Black Studies	p. 26
By Any Means Necessary: Student Protest and the Birth of Black Studies	p. 31
Prelude to a Strike	p. 32
San Francisco State: An Unlikely Place for a Revolution	p. 35
The White Student Protest Movement: Port Huron Statement	p. 39
The Strike in Black and White	p. 44
Cornell University	p. 56
Nation Building in the Belly of the Beast	p. 61
Race, Rebellion, and Black Studies	p. 65
Structured Equality: Methodologies of Blackness in the Early Years	p. 68
The Ford Foundation and Black Studies: The Yale Conference	p. 75
McGeorge Bundy and Black Power	p. 80
Cleveland: Background of an Election	p. 85
Ocean Hill-Brownsville	p. 90
Black Studies in White and Black: The Ford Foundation Funds Black Studies	p. 93
Black Studies Grant Making and the Ford Foundation	p. 94
White Philanthropy and Black Education: An Overview	p. 102
The First Round of Grants in Black Studies	p. 106
Looking Back and Wondering: Surveying the Field Five Years Later	p. 114
Maybe Wrong, but Never in Doubt	p. 118
The Legacy in the Present	p. 123
Travels in Time: Black Studies, African Americans, and Affirmative Action	p. 127
Ford, Black Students, and the Post-Civil Rights Era	p. 131
Stories from the Front Lines: African American Studies in Contemporary America	p. 135
Bakke, Affirmative Action, and Higher Education, 1970-2003	p. 146
From Black Studies to African Diaspora Studies: A Shift in Perspective	p. 151
Everything and Nothing at All: Race, Black Studies, and Higher Education Today	p. 155
Diversity in Black	p. 160
Getting There from Here: The Future of African American Studies	p. 165
Profiles in Diversity in Higher Education, or, What's Race Got to Do with It?	p. 169
Acknowledgments	p. 179
Notes	p. 181
Selected Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 205
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