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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanfield, John H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Research.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations--Research.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John H. Stanfield II, a leading historian of Black social science, distills decades of his research and thinking in a set of articles-some original to the volume, others from fugitive sources-that trace the trajectories of Black scholars and scholarship in relationship to the broader African American experience over the past two centuries. Stanfield's signature contributions to this research tradition range from the role of philanthropy in the study and life of African Americans to institutional racism in sociology and the impacts of race on scholarly careers. His analyses run from globa

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:

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42735-4

1-315-42736-2

1-315-42737-0

1-59874-670-7

9781315427379

OCLC:

756485060