Historical foundations of Black reflective sociology / John H. Stanfield, II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanfield, John H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Research.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race relations.

Research.

United States--Race relations--Research.

United States.

Physical Description:

317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2011]

Summary:

Stanfield, a historian of black social science, teaches African studies and directs the Research Program on Transcultural and Intercultural Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. In this collection of 19 articles previously published over the past 30 years, he gives a historical context for reflective black sociology from the late 1860s to the 1990s. He describes the political, economic, and social factors that shaped both academic and non-academic thinking about black experiences in the US, with particular focus on the rise of the scientific study of blacks prior to WWII. The book begins with an autobiographical essay on the author's education and career, then presents articles on topics such as race and elite academic employment in post-1970s America, Martin Luther King as a public sociologist, teaching sociology in historically black colleges, and Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on blacks in the 1920s. The book's readership includes social historians and sociologists. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Autobiographical studies

The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations

Charlie

Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies

Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities

Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920

Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920

The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars

Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948

Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases

The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology

Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars

Bitter Canaan : Charles S. Johnson as sociologist of African American and African sociological thought

Teaching sociology in historically Black colleges and universities

Martin Luther King, Jr. as a public sociologist

Race relations research between the 1940s and 1970s : introduction to a history of race relations research

Hylan Lewis' blackways of Kent

Black radical sociological thought

African diasporic sociology

The political sociology of "when things change and remain the same" : the paradoxes and dilemmas of race in the American Academy

Not quite in the club

The race politics of knowledge production

Gazing through the kitchen window : race and elite academic employment in post-1970s America.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1598746499

9781598746488

1598746480

9781598746495

OCLC:

687676684

Publisher Number:

99946407137