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Introduction: The Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP) and Approaches to Scholarship About/For Black Communities
Academic journal article from Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 33, No. 2
Beginning of article
"I think that part of the (the black scholar's) responsibility is to help the people to see themselves in a new light, to see themselves not primarily as victims of America but as co-creators of the past, as co-creators of the present, and as co-creators of a new vision for creating the American future. . . . Wherever and however possible, (scholars) must direct as much of their writing, their speaking (and) their teaching ...directly to the life and heart and growth of the community.... The responsibility of black scholars is to return to people a higher, deeper, cleaner version of the light that the people have given them, for they would have nothing to write their thousand monographs …
