Topic: Race & Social Justice
New Research: Prisons, Macroeconomics, Nurses of Psychiatry, and Colonial Medicine
The latest installment in our series of newly-published research reports.
New Research: Black Conservatives, Climate Policy, African Universities, and Aid to Intellectuals
Research reports drawing on several Rockefeller Archive Center collections span continents, disciplines, and eras.
Black Education and Rockefeller Philanthropy from the Jim Crow South to the Civil Rights Era
Applying a vast fortune to the American race problem, but with decades of false assumptions and well-intended approaches that fell short.
The Fairy Godmothers of Women’s Studies
Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.
In Brief: Manels Before #MeToo
A foundation’s early criticism of the all-male conference panel, before #nomoremanels
In Brief: The South African Institute of Race Relations
How did a US foundation manage to work under apartheid?
In Brief: The 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference
The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.
Programming for the People: Diversity in Early Public Television
How philanthropy helped carve out a public space for the expression of race, culture, and critical perspectives.
Who Belongs in the Boy Scouts? Philanthropy’s Support for Black Scouting
How a new foundation helped one of America’s oldest youth organizations become more racially inclusive.
In Brief: James Baldwin’s Creative Writer’s Fellowship
How a foundation provided the final ingredient to an era-defining novel.