Transcending the color line : the sociology of black experience in America / Bobby E. Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Bobby E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : M.J, [2015]

Summary:

A moral and philosophical approach to the stubborn problem of racism. Transcending the Color Line by sociologist and professor Bobby E. Mills, PhD, represents a philosophical attempt to make sense out of American black collective experience. These essays do not reflect traditional sociological perspectives and methodological considerations. Instead, the query is: How do we live? And more importantly, what are we willing to sacrifice in order to live the way we say we want to live? In other words, this collection digs deeper into the moral and spiritual issues that lie beneath the more obvious sociological ones. Invariably the search for moral understanding and spiritual meaning is neither easy nor popular. Yet it is the abstract, empirical (amoral and apolitical) character of traditional sociology that has all but rendered it irrelevant to the resolution of contemporary social ills. The biased theoretical assumptions of the scientific method (i.e., abstract empiricism) are the social basis for the collective bias otherwise known as the illusion of value neutrality. This collective cultural bias is the social foundation for institutional racism, sexism, theological dogmatism (i.e., denominationalism), and above all, authoritarianism. Indeed, every "ism" is a schism, and schisms divide. Our either/or logic fosters cultural extremism rather than a universal perspective on humanity. By digging deep to the true source of our sociological and leadership issues, these essays not only call black and white individuals accountable to the dysfunction present in our shared social experience, but inspire all people to transcend the color line and become part of the solution.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Sociology of Family: Spirituality Versus Materialism

2 Character Development: Making You Your Best Friend

3 The Proper Use of Money

4 One Educational Process Does Not Fit All

5 The Miseducation of the Black Community

6 What Happened to the War on Poverty?

7 Black Personality Structure: An Expression of Racial Oppression

8 A Philosophical Analysis of Black Academia

9 The Difficulty of Effective Community-Wide Planning

10 How to Wreck a University

11 Black Intellectuals: Myth or Reality?

12 The Sociology of "Party Down": Saturday Night Versus Sunday Morning

13 A Socio-Religious Analysis of the Social Costs of Institutional Racism in a Theoretical Democracy

14 White Supremacy: Myth or Reality?

15 Affirmative Action: Method or Ideology?

16 A Philosophical Analysis of Democracy, Power, Leadership, and Commitment in American Society

17 The Twenty-First-Century Civil War: Upside Down

18 The Decline of American Social Democracy

19 Trayvon Martin: The Aftermath

20 "Stand Your Ground" Is Unholy Ground

21 An Analysis of the Political Party System in America

22 A Philosophical Analysis of Republicanism

23 A Socio-Theological Analysis of Vanity

24 An Analysis of Homosexuality: Social Isolationism

25 Same-Sex Marriage: Civil Right or Human Right?

26 The Issue of Sin Is Destroying the Fabric of American Society

27 A Socio-Religious Analysis of the Ecological Crisis: Human Exploitation

28 Ten Things: Bridging the Cultural Racial Divide

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781630473174

1630473170