I too looked in more detail at the websites since that earlier response, @marlowe1 and, similar to what you found, I noticed only one who expressed an interest in “Black” Anything. However, a few more were interested in CRT and some were interested in 20th Century Am Lit. No doubt there will be crossovers (or, to use the current jargon, “intersectionalities”) with Black Studies. However, this didn’t seem different from other years and they still admitted their Medievalist, their Romantic Poet, and so forth. If anything there seems to be an over-concentration of Queer Theorists, Marxists and grad students whose last name begins with the letter “C.” Not sure what to make of that last one, but the other areas of study are part-and-parcel with the English Department.
However, I also found the original statement! So I wasn’t correct earlier either. While they did move it off the front page and toned it down a bit in the news section, you can find the exact wording once again at this link: Black Studies | Department of English Language and Literature. They also include this “clarifying” interview to explain their thinking: Black Studies at UChicago: An Interview | Department of English Language and Literature. Note that they are also careful to separate this issue and the English Department itself from CSRPC’s recent demand letter (to refresh memories there, see this link that lays out the CSRPC campaign in a bit more detail: About — More than diversity.).