ABSTRACT

The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974’s pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisit the legacies of significant Black scholars including James E. Blackwell, William Julius Wilson, Joyce Ladner, and Mary Pattillo, but also extends coverage to include overlooked figures like Audre Lorde, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin and August Wilson - whose lives and work have inspired new generations of Black sociologists on contemporary issues of racial segregation, feminism, religiosity, class, inequality and urban studies.

part I|85 pages

Hidden Figures

chapter 4|7 pages

Black versus European

Frantz Fanon and the Over-Determination of Blackness

chapter 6|7 pages

The Cigar Annies of August Wilson

Ethnographically Unmasking Black Women’s Invisibility

chapter 8|17 pages

Poking and Prying with a Purpose

Zora Neale Hurston and Black Feminist Sociology

part II|60 pages

Behind the Veil

chapter 9|14 pages

When and Where I Always Enter

An Auto-Ethnographic Approach to Black Women’s Body Size Politics in Academia

chapter 10|12 pages

School Daze

Patricia Hill Collins, a College Classroom, and a New Sociology of Race

chapter 13|15 pages

No Fucks to Give

Dismantling the Respectability Politics of White Supremacist Sociology

part III|91 pages

Black on Both Sides

chapter 14|16 pages

For, By and About

Notes on a Sociology of Black Liberation

chapter 19|9 pages

On Second Sight, Surveillance and the Black Planet

Notes on a New Framework

chapter 20|18 pages

The New Black Sociology

Bringing Diasporic & Internationalist Perspectives