HBCU closure would eliminate spaces for unqualified black intellectual work

Evidence

Black colleges and universities need the money. And if help doesn’t come soon, many will have to close their doors for good. What will happen then? Who will provide the space for students and intellectuals to tackle the issues confronting black America without qualification—without the need to justify its worthiness as a topic of consideration? Who will provide the breathing room for the next playwrights, novelists, and poets to dare to be unabashedly black—without the burden of navigating the value gap—in their aesthetic choices and in their identification with the traditions that inform their unique voices? — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 376

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: HBCUs provided spaces where black intellectuals worked free of the value gap.; White-funded black higher education aimed to discipline rather than liberate — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 281
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: HBCUs provided spaces where black intellectuals worked free of the value gap.; White-funded black higher education aimed to discipline rather than liberate — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 281

Broader Connections

• HBCUs provided spaces where black intellectuals worked free of the value gap. #corroborates (0.93)