Philanthropy and the Black Scholar

It would be difficult to argue that philanthropy has been a neglected topic in the literature of educational history. On the contrary, it seems to have been one of the more explored pieces of that terrain in the last two decades. Beginning with Curti and Nash's Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education in 1965, the educational activities of various philanthropies have been studied by a wide range of scholars.1 Most of the recent studies have followed a strongly revisionist line, highlighting the often hidden agendas of the philanthropies, their officials, and their tendencies to manipulate, if not exploit, the presumed beneficiaries of philanthropic largesse. These revisionist scholars have been responding to the largely benign analysis of philanthropic efforts proffered by Curti and Nash and by officials of the philanthropies themselves who have written about their efforts.2 Despite the rather strong differences in interpretation among the works noted above, they are bound together by their insistence on viewing the situation from the perspectives of the philanthropies

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