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Black Studies in Historical Perspective
Author(s) -
Bailey Ronald
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1973.tb00064.x
Subject(s) - objectivity (philosophy) , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , sociology , foundation (evidence) , white (mutation) , environmental ethics , political science , law , philosophy , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , artificial intelligence , gene
This paper presents an overview of the major intellectual forces affecting black scholars in the past and an outline of what will occur in the future. The role of the white researcher is discussed in relationship to the concept of scientific objectivity, with an illustration of how the very concepts employed by researchers (“integration” versus “liberation”) channel their energies in one direction as opposed to another. Discussion of black behavior is grounded in a consideration of African behavior. Black Americans are viewed as fundamentally African, not European; the difference between these two provides the legitimate epistemological foundation for a distinctive Black Studies.