News and Views: Black Studies Inroads Have Now Reached the Doctoral Level From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: March 31, 1996 | Copyright CH II Publishers, Inc. Mar 31, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

News and Views: Black Studies Inroads Have Now Reached the Doctoral Level.

Slowly, black studies is gaining academic respect. It is even becoming an accepted field for postgraduate academic endeavor.

Harvard University's recent hiring of the distinguished University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson(*) reinforces Harvard's highly visible and expensive commitment to black studies. This wasn't always the case. Harvard University's black studies program was baptized in t...