Challenging the Future of Black Studies
Scholars debate and discover ‘profound generation gap’ at conference
By Kendra Hamilton
NEW YORK
While hundreds of Black scholars from across the nation were making plans to converge on New York City last month for what promised to be one of the landmark conferences of the year — “The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research,” — the New York Times was announcing yet another crisis for the discipline: the “fearful” implications of the rising numbers of Latinos in the nation’s census.
The newspaper’s analysis drew nothing but scorn from scholars attending the three-day conference co-sponsored by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Princeton University.
