Negro Digest - Freedom Archives
Negro Digest - Freedom Archives Negro Digest - Freedom Archives
Each community will select/elect a community board for the purpose of giving direction and guidance to the newlyemerging school system within the community . 2. Church Sites Churches will be responsible for providing space and for conducting breakfast and lunch programs . 3 . School Administrator Teams The school administration will be composed of a committee of one parent, one student and one professional . B . City-wide Board of Education (see Black Board of Education) ' This Board will take orders from the individual community boards and will be the only organ by/through which outside groups may address the new school system . C . Communiversity (Saturday College) Teachers, parents and college students, after having finished their morning task of instruction to the pre-school, the primary and secondary schools, will attend (or teach) afternoon classes at the communiversity-where the following subjects will be taught : 1 . African History 2 . African-American History 3 . Political Science 4 . Colonial Anthropology and Sociology 5 . Survival (medical) 6 . Swahili 7 . French and Other Languages 8 . Black Arts 9 . Black Literature 10 . Teaching Techniques D . Future Programs 1 . Food program for the black community a . Feasts for the purpose of redistributing food in the black community . b . Food Cooperatives 2 . Housing program 3 . Family and social program (extended family concepts, etc .) 4 . Employment program (coping with cybernetics, automation ) 5 . Health program 6 . Technology program 7q March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST
Toward A Definition PLAC K ST U D I ES AS A N ACRDEM IC DISCI PLI N E BY PRESTON WILCOX "Black Studies . . . is that body of experience and knowledge that Blacks have had to summon in order to learn how to survive within a society that is stacked against them . . ." NEGRO DIGEST March 1970 Introduction ~tG~'~e%~LAREMONT College is to be commended for convening a con- ~~~~ ference on the subject issue : Black Studies as an Academic Discipline . Consider- 75
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Toward A Definition<br />
PLAC K ST U D I ES AS A N<br />
ACRDEM IC DISCI PLI N E<br />
BY PRESTON WILCOX<br />
"Black Studies . . . is that<br />
body of experience and<br />
knowledge that Blacks have<br />
had to summon in order to<br />
learn how to survive within<br />
a society that is stacked<br />
against them . . ."<br />
NEGRO DIGEST March 1970<br />
Introduction<br />
~tG~'~e%~LAREMONT College<br />
is to be commended<br />
for convening a con-<br />
~~~~ ference on the subject<br />
issue : Black Studies as<br />
an Academic Discipline . Consider-<br />
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