African-American studies

The current "Black Studies" programs are white studies programs in blackface.

— African-American studies

Despite the determinate role of Marxism in the historical development of Black Studies, it never developed an institutional niche. I argue that the rise of Afrocentricity was made possible by the political repression of Black left-radicalism/Marxism.

— African-American studies

Black studies does not adhere to the requirement that black people can be studied only in a larger context. It assumes that black people can be studied on their own terms-that their behavior can be evaluated with respect to the standards and requirements prevalent within the black community, whether or not they are the same as in the white community.

— African-American studies

The militant advocates of black studies fail to recognize that the purpose of the humanities and social sciences is, at the very least, to teach critical methods of thought. But this cannot be achieved in a black studies program whose ideological assumptions are ethnocentric, culturally xenophobic and authoritarian.

— African-American studies