iBlack Studies Database: A Convening

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• Convening Welcome Packet Part One - Redacted
  Photocopy of the contents of the 2006 Ford Foundation convening Welcome Packet. Contains welcome letters from marilyn m. thomas-houston and Irma McClaurin and the unedited participant responses to questions the convening addressed. To read the document click the image at bottom right of this page.
• Convening Final Report to the Ford Foundation
  Final report to Ford contains grantee information, results, financial report and narrative describing the process, goals accomplished, and obstacles encountered.
• Convening Journal Proposal
  Proposal for special issue of "The International Journal of Africana Studies submitted by marilyn m. thomas-houston for For My People Productions, Inc.
• Manning Marable Comment
  The Ford Foundation
• Rhett S. Jones
  Ford Foundation
• Sylvia Cyrus Albritton and Carole Boyce Davies
  Ford Foundation
• Abdul Alkalimat, Ronald W. Bailey and James Turner
  Ford Foundation
• Convening Table
  Ford Foundation
• Convening Welcome Packet Part Two
  Photocopy of the second portion of the 2006 Ford Foundation convening Welcome Packet. Contains the remaining unedited participant responses to questions the convening addressed. To read the document click the image at bottom right of this page.
• Convening Program
  Photocopy of original program for the 2006 Ford Foundation convening. Designed for For My People Productions, Inc. by mythical creations.
• Convening Round Table
  Picture of a few of the scholars in the Ford Foundation conference room.
• marilyn miller thomas-houston
  University of Florida
• Warren Whatley
  University of Michigan
• Dorothy Randall Tsuruta
  San Francisco State University
• James Turner
  Cornell University
• Esther Terry
  University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• James Stewart
  Penn State
• Daryl Michael Scott
  Howard University
• Janice Petrovich
  Ford Foundation
• Nathaniel Norment. Jr.
  Temple University
• Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
  University of California, Los Angeles
• Irma McClaurin
  Ford Foundation
• Manning Marable
  Columbia University
• Summer L. (Henry) Melay
  National Council for Black Studies
• Terry Kershaw
  Virginia Tech University
• Maulana Karenga
  California State University, Long Beach
• Rhett S. Jones
  Brown University
• Charles E. Jones
  Georgia State University
• Stanlie M. James
  University of Wisconsin
• Austin Jackson
  Michigan State University
• Charles P. Henry
  University of California at Berkeley
• Beverly Guy Sheftall
  Spelman College
• Edmund T. Gordon
  University of Texas at Austin
• Kevin Gaines
  University of Michigan
• James de Jongh
  The City College and CUNY Graduate Center
• Sylvia Cyrus
  Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• Kimberle Crenshaw
  UCLA & Columbia Law School
• Mónica Carrillo
  Center for Afro-Peruvian Stud¬ies and Advancement in Lima, Peru
• Josephine Boyd Bradley
  Clark Atlanta University
• Carole Boyce Davies
  Florida International University
• Alison R. Bernstein
  Ford Foundation
• Lee D. Baker
  Duke University
• Ronald W. Bailey
  Northeastern University
• Molefi Kete Asante
  Temple University
• Abdul Alkalimat
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Nine
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the question, "What will it take to establish intergeneration leadership succession in the field of Black Studies?"
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Eight
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the question, "What role can chief administrators play in sustaining Black Studies?"
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Seven
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the questions, "What represents 'Best Practices' in the field in terms of both program administration and pedagogy, and what is the best way to disseminate them? Include the role of technology in your response."
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Six
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the questions, "How connected is Black Studies to communities? How central are participatory research, community involvement, and social activism to the field?"
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Five
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the question, "Do national Black Studies organizations have a role to play in the institutionalization of the field?"
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Four
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the question, " What are the funding alternatives needed to assist in sustaining Black Studies?"
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Three
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the questions, "What direction should new scholarship in the field take? For example: Intersectionality, sexuality, class, internationalism, and environmental justice."
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question Two
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the question, "What is/should be the relationship between Black Studies and Critical Race Studies, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Afro-Latino/a Studies, and Africana Women's Studies?
• iBlack Studies Convening Database: Question One
  Key Black Studies scholars discuss the questions, "How far have we come in institutionalizing Black Studies, and how far do we have to go? What efforts must be made to move the field from the periphery of academia to the core?
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