From Black Power to Black Studies
How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10045541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard H King (University of Nottingham, corresponding author), F Rojas (0000-0001-7088-3505) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 306 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27694888 |
| OpenAlex | W2273758733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
There is more than one way to analyze historical phenomena, and the sociologist Fabio Rojas has chosen to approach the issue in sociological terms. He defines his approach early on when he writes, “While social movement research motivates my research questions, I turn to organization theory for answers because black studies emerged most forcefully within universities” (p. 9). That said, he must by the nature of his problem offer a historical perspective on how movements for social and political change shape academic inquiry. A review of this length allows for only a brief description of Rojas's approach and a survey of some of his important conclusions. Rojas offers a long chapter on the Third World Liberation Front strike at San Francisco State College in 1968–1969, which led to the expansion of a black studies program. He analyzes the components—a community-based social movement, supporters and opponents among faculty and students within the college, the institutional bureaucracy, academic traditions in general, and the leadership of the institution. Any adequate account of what happened at the college needs to take all these factors into account. Another interesting chapter compares the fate of three black studies programs—at the University of Illinois-Chicago, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University—over three decades. In this chapter Rojas's point is to identify what the crucial conditions for success or failure were. Rojas also analyzes the major role that the Ford Foundation played during the same period in funding black studies at a variety of institutions around the country and where those efforts succeeded and where they failed
Aesthetics · Black Power · Bureaucracy · Institution · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Academic Freedom and Politics · American Political and Social Dynamics · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |