From Black Power to Black Studies
Book • 2007
Fabio Rojas's 'From Black Power to Black Studies' examines how Black nationalist activism in the 1960s led to the formation of Black Studies as an academic field.
Drawing on archival sources, interviews, and protest data, Rojas traces key events such as the 1968 strike at San Francisco State and philanthropy's role in shaping the discipline.
He analyzes the transition from activist protest to institutionalized departments and centers, showing how radical politics were adapted within universities.
The book explores tensions between activism and professionalization, and how programs navigated funding, legitimacy, and curricular formation.
Overall, it provides a detailed institutional history of how social movement demands became embedded in higher education.
Drawing on archival sources, interviews, and protest data, Rojas traces key events such as the 1968 strike at San Francisco State and philanthropy's role in shaping the discipline.
He analyzes the transition from activist protest to institutionalized departments and centers, showing how radical politics were adapted within universities.
The book explores tensions between activism and professionalization, and how programs navigated funding, legitimacy, and curricular formation.
Overall, it provides a detailed institutional history of how social movement demands became embedded in higher education.
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Fabio Rojas, "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline" (JHU Press, 2010)
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Fabio Rojas, "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline" (JHU Press, 2010)
