2001 Race Odyssey

Introduction

Part One: Overview

Toward Cultural Pluralism and Economic Justice, Bruce R. Hare

Performing Blackness: What African Americans Can Teach Sociology About Race, Sarah Susannah Willie

Myrdal, Park, and Second-Generation African American Sociologists, Donald Cunnigen

Deconstructing the Bell Curve: Racism, Classism, and Intelligence in America, Howard F. Taylor

Sociology: After the Linguistic and Multicultural Turns, Paget Henry


Part Two: Area Studies

Black Youth at Risk, Bruce R. Hare

Work, Family, and Black Women’s Oppression, Patricia Hill-Collins

African American Family Life in Societal Context, Walter R. Allen

Race, Class, and Educational Opportunity, Edgar G. Epps

Racial Classification in Criminology: The Reproduction of Racialized Crime, Jeanette Covington


Part Three: Immigration and International Perspectives

Black Immigrants: The Experience of Invisibility and Inequality, Reintroduced, Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte

Sociology of “Primitive Societies,” Evolutionism, and Africa, S. N. Sangmpam

Globalization and the African Experience, Pade Badru


Part Four: Future Directions

Dominant and Subdominant People of Power: A New Way of Conceptualizing Minority and Majority Populations, Charles Vert Willie

The Historical Black Freedom Struggle: The Legacy and Challenges of Contemporary Inequality, Aldon D. Morris

The Social Situation of the Black Executive: Black and White Identities in the Corporate World, Elijah Anderson

The United States: A Study in Political-Class Racism, Joseph W. Scott

Bibliography