Founding intellectuals Malcolm X, WEB Dubois, Carter G. Woodson, and Frederick Douglass all believed that the role of the scholar in Black Studies was the most important in the fight against European powers and American institutionalization. The scholars would hold the key to preserving the history and heritage of African American culture. Malcolm X shared an intense analysis of the educational issues of African Americans. He sought to make blacks value their history and culture by making it the focal point of their education. According to Malcolm, education and knowledge affects an individual’s actions by allowing an individual to strive to continue achievements of their cultural history. Without cultural history, there will be no drive to achieve anything, which is exactly what American institutionalization intended to do.
WEB DuBois believed that the role of the scholar in Black Studies was to educate their own people, which proved to be …show more content…
The most basic and critical component in Woodson's idea of mis-education relied on the failure of the education and academic system’s inability to teach genuine Negro History in schools and the unpleasant truth that there was a shortage of resources accessible for such a reason, because of the fact that most history books gave almost no space to African American culture. Woodson considered this situation miserable, an American catastrophe, damning the Negro to a mentally programmed understanding of life and how to exist in America, which was allotted to him by the predominant race, and consumed by him through his educating. The disregard of Afro-American History and bending of the truths concerning Negroes in most history books, denied the young black kid and his entire race of a legacy, and consigned him to
WEB DuBois believed that the role of the scholar in Black Studies was to educate their own people, which proved to be …show more content…
The most basic and critical component in Woodson's idea of mis-education relied on the failure of the education and academic system’s inability to teach genuine Negro History in schools and the unpleasant truth that there was a shortage of resources accessible for such a reason, because of the fact that most history books gave almost no space to African American culture. Woodson considered this situation miserable, an American catastrophe, damning the Negro to a mentally programmed understanding of life and how to exist in America, which was allotted to him by the predominant race, and consumed by him through his educating. The disregard of Afro-American History and bending of the truths concerning Negroes in most history books, denied the young black kid and his entire race of a legacy, and consigned him to