«(…) This movement to connect black nationalist ideology with administrative power in the universities spread rapidly from the campus of San Francisco State.
By the mid-1970s, there were upwards of five hundred black studies programs in universities across the country. Activists had established the technique and replicated it everywhere. (…)
These departments, however, were not models of academic rigor. According to the black scholar Shelby Steele, who had once worked in the movement to establish black studies departments, the programs were filled were "crooks" and "hustlers" who were more interested in obtaining lucrative sinecures than in doing meaningful academic work. Steele describes a vivid cast of characters that populated the new departments: a street hustler driving to campus in a brand-new Mercedes-Benz; a program administrator who was functionally illiterate but could play the manipulation game; a virulently racist department director who slandered whites as cold, sadistic "ice people." (…)
Today, the discipline of black studies has been universalized: 91 percent of public universities have black studies programs and 42 percent have solidified them into full-time academic departments.39 The black liberation n19vement may have disintegrated, but over time its ideology has been softened, adapted, and absorbed into the academic bureaucracy. »
(To be continued)
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