Description
This seventeen-essay volume is a comprehensive assessment of the complex relationships of racism, sexism, and classism both within and between the Pan-African community and the larger American society. It offers new twenty-first-century approaches for cooperatively and simultaneously addressing these significant social problems.
Table of Contents
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
About the Author
Bruce R. Hare is professor of sociology and former chair of African American Studies at Syracuse University.
Related Interest
6.125 x 9.25, 428 pages
November 2002