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The Origin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University: A Legacy of Black Scholar Activists

Scott, Jon-Jama
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621955882676684

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2021, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
Ethnic Studies (ES) is the study of history, practices, and contributions of people of color and their descendants. Ethnic Studies has emerged as an academic discipline resulting from social activist groups of the late 1950s, and, subsequent student activism of the 1960s. In ways that were planned and improvised, Black scholar activists along with the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) fashioned the need for the development of curricula that provided an alternative to the traditional Eurocentric focus in many academic fields. An inquiry into the origin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) qualifies in general some African Americans’ responses to education in the U.S. and specifically at the first school to have ES in the state of Ohio. Alliances between activist student groups and individuals of diverse backgrounds led to the formation and development of a new academic discipline, Ethnic Studies at BGSU beginning in May 1970. The development of Ethnic Studies programming and curricula at BGSU emerged from a coalition of student activists advocating for Black Studies. BGSU’s department is among the oldest in the nation focusing on interdisciplinary studies of race. African Americans organizing and sustaining Ethnic Studies at BGSU brought academic and artistic value and distinction to them and to the institution.
Angela Nelson, PhD (Advisor)
Michael Brooks, PhD (Committee Member)
110 p.
African American Studies; American History; Black Studies; Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies; Black Studies; African American History; Scholar Activism; Bowling Green State University; Campus Movements; Ethnic Idenities; Multidisciplinary; Toledo; Bowling Green; Ohio; Iconic; Founding Programs; Origin; Midwest

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  • Scott, J.-J. (2021). The Origin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University: A Legacy of Black Scholar Activists [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621955882676684

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Scott, Jon-Jama. The Origin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University: A Legacy of Black Scholar Activists. 2021. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621955882676684.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Scott, Jon-Jama. "The Origin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University: A Legacy of Black Scholar Activists." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621955882676684

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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