News and Views; A JBHE Survey: Is Black Studies Central to the Mission of a Great University? From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: April 30, 2001 | Copyright CH II Publishers, Inc. Apr 30, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In most cases black studies at the nation's leading universities was an academic discipline born of student unrest and protest in the late 1960s. In those years black studies programs were trotted out to quell protests and restore calm to turbulent campuses around the country. Since mainstream academic departments were almost invariably opposed to recruiting black academics to their own departments, many universities used African-American studies programs as an easy way to boost the black faculty head count. This reduced pressures to integrate faculties in traditional academic departments.

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