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.
Introduction. Part One: HIDDEN FIGURES. 1 #SayHerName: Why Black Women Matter in Sociology. 2 Rewriting Wright: A Note on Perspective in Method and Writing. 3 James Baldwin and the Lay Race Theorist Tradition. 4 Black versus European: Frantz Fanon and the Over determination of Blackness. 5 The Sociology of Stuart Hall. 6 The Cigar Annie's of August Wilson: Ethnographically Unmasking Black Women's Invisibility. 7 Zora Neale Hurston and Ethnography of Black Life. 8 Poking and Prying With a Purpose: Zora Neale Hurston and Black Feminist Sociology. Part Two: BEHIND THE VEIL. 9 When and Where I Always Enter: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach to Black Women's Body Size Politics in Academia. 10 School Daze: Patricia Hill Collins, a College Classroom, and a New Sociology of Race. 11 A History of White Violence Tells Us Attacks on Black Academics are not Ending (I know because it happened to me). 12 A Love Letter to Black Graduate Students. 13 No Fucks to Give: Dismantling the Respectability Politics of White Supremacist Sociology. Part Three: BLACK ON BOTH SIDES. 14 For, By and About: Notes on a Sociology of Black Liberation. 15 The Evolution of #BlackLivesMatter. 16 William Julius Wilson and the Study of the 'New' Diversity Elite Colleges. 17 Black in Business and Ain't It Grand: Sharon M. Collins and the Re-Imagination of Black Professional Life. 18 Why Research on the Global Black Middle Class is Essential. 19 On Second Sight, Surveillance & the Black Planet: Notes on a New Framework. 20 The New Black Sociology: Bringing Diasporic & Internationalist Perspectives. References. Notes.
