From Oklahoma to San Francisco: Nathan Hare and the Unexpected Origins of Black Studies in the United States

From Oklahoma to San Francisco: Nathan Hare and the Unexpected Origins of Black Studies in the United States

By Erica Johnson Sociologist Nathaniel (Nathan) Hare earned two graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and assumed assistant professorships at Virginia State College and Howard University (where he taught Stokely Carmichael). After publicly disagreeing with Howard’s President James Nabrit over the administrator’s desire to increase white enrollment at the historically Black college, the administration fired him. From there, he helped es…