Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-32358-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: Routledge Key Guides

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers. It implores readers to integrate the research of Black scholars into their teaching and research, and fundamentally, to rethink the dominant epistemological claims and philosophical underpinnings of the Western social sciences. It features 50 chapters, written by 55 scholars who explore the diverse contributions of notable Black thinkers, both historical and contemporary.

Four thematic areas organize this work—Black epistemology, Black geopolitics, Black oppression and resistance, and Black families and communities. Through a close analysis of the fifty thinkers presented here, the chapters explore these themes while dismantling the whitewashed disciplinary histories, methodologies, and content that obscure and/or subjugate the significance of Black social thought. In addition to offering insightful and timely analysis, each chapter offers suggested readings for readers who would like to dive deeper into the work of Black social thinkers.

This volume offers an accessible starting point for exploring the work of Black scholars past and present and their contributions to sociology and the social sciences more broadly. It is useful to students, academics, practitioners, and the lay public who are curious about Black social thought.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jipguep-Akhtar, Marie-Claude

Khan, Nazneen M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar and Nazneen M. Khan

PART I: Black Epistemology: Black Feminist Epistemology

1 Anna Julia Cooper

2 Audre Lorde

3 Fatou Sow

4 Rose Brewer

5 Patricia Hill Collins

6 Ruth Wilson Gilmore

7 bell hooks

8 Combahee River Collective

Black Insurgent Sociology

9 James Edward Blackwell

10 Archie Mafeje

11 Delores P. Aldridge

12 Joyce Ladner

13 Aldon Morris

14 Earl Wright II

PART II: Black Geopolitics

15 Booker T. Washington

16 W.E.B. Du Bois

17 Charles S. Johnson

18 Oliver Cromwell Cox

19 C.L.R. James

20 Horace R. Cayton, Jr.

21 St. Clair Drake

22 Frantz Fanon

23 Stuart Hall

24 Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte

25 William Julius Wilson

26 Cedric Robinson

27 Walter Rodney

28 Esteban Miguel Morales Domínguez

29 Elijah Anderson

30 Amina Mama

PART III: Black Oppression, Black Resistance

31 Ida B. Wells-Barnett

32 Monroe Nathan Work

33 Derrick Bell

34 Beatriz Nascimento

35 Angela Davis

36 Manning Marable

37 Loretta J. Ross

38 Cornel West

39 Dorothy Roberts

40 Lawrence D. Bobo

41 Kimberlé Crenshaw

42 Ruha Benjamin

43 Kehinde Andrews

PART IV: Black Families and Communities

44 Zora Neale Hurston

45 E. Franklin Frazier

46 Ira De Augustine Reid

47 Andrew Billingsley

48 Toni Morrison

49 Nathan Hare

50 Doris Y. Wilkinson

Über Autor(innen)

Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar is Associate Professor of Sociology at Howard University, where she has served as graduate program director for close to ten years. Her research interests are race/ethnicity, gender, the life course, and “place” disparities in health and criminal justice. Her research and teaching incorporate Black sociological perspectives that explain the influence of race on the opportunity structure of minorities and the fundamental social inequalities that significantly impact their health, socioeconomic, material, political, and other outcomes.

Nazneen M. Khan is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Randolph-Macon College, where she also serves as Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Using intersectional theory and methodology, her research and teaching focuses on families, children, and reproductive health and wellbeing in a US context. Her recent scholarship can be read in Contexts, Children & Society, and Sociological Focus. She is also editor of COVID-19 and Childhood Inequality (2022).