Black scholars were excluded from studying Black people as too biased

Evidence

But there was almost no consideration of Zora Neale Hurston or the elder statesmen, W. E. B. Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson. Although White assimilationists and philanthropists were taking over the racial discourse in the academy, they were customarily shutting out Black scholars as being too subjective and biased to study Black people. It was amazing that the same scholars and philanthropists who saw no problem with White scholars studying White people had all these biased complaints when it came to Black scholars studying Black people. But what would racist ideas be without contradictions. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 899

Categorization

• XREF: Directly illustrates Kendi’s core thesis that racist ideas (here, assumptions about Black scholarly objectivity) serve policy outcomes (excluding Black scholars from the academy) — connects to the reader’s goal of placing arguments in his three-way scheme. — connects to: Black women’s scholarship entered publishing only once white women showed interest in race — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 221
• ADDENDUM: Reinforces the pattern in ‘Grafting & Growth’ style of revealing how institutional gatekeeping works through seemingly neutral concern for ‘objectivity’ — a power-structure reveal.