Black intellectual theory entered mainstream academia only when reframed by white scholars

Evidence

Just as black popular music— blues and jazz— could only gain popular currency when white musicians played it, black racial theory could only begin to make headway in the “mainstream” social sciences when reframed and advanced by white scholars. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 20

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the pattern of cultural appropriation / gatekeeping seen in ‘Communication as Culture’ discussions of dominant frames absorbing marginalized voices. — connects to: Black women’s scholarship entered publishing only once white women showed interest in race — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 221
• SEED: A historical essay angle: the ‘white gateway’ pattern — how Black scholarly innovation (Du Bois et al.) was structurally barred until white intermediaries carried it, mirroring blues/jazz radio history.