The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

ISBN-13: 9780367341138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Earl Wright II; Edward V. Wallace

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Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’s charge of engaging in objective research that has a positive impact on society, this timely volume brings together the latest interdisciplinary research to offer a broad overview of the issues currently faced by Blacks in United States.

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Part I Black Sociology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow  1. Black Sociology: Continuing the Agenda  2. Black Sociology: The Sociology of Knowledge, Racialized Power Relations of Knowledge and Humanistic Liberation  Part II Black Youth, Emerging Adults and The Family  3. The Death of Trayvon Martin and Public Space: Why the Racial Contract Still Matters  4. Is it Easy Living in the Big Easy?: Examining the Lives of African American Emerging Adults in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina  5. The Psychosocial Impact of Parental Incarceration on Children and their Caregivers  6. "Sure there’s Racism … But Homophobia—that’s Different": Experiences of Black Lesbians Who are Parenting in North-Central Florida at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality  Part III Education and The Economy  7. Parental Expectations, Family Structure and the Black Gender Gap in Educational and Occupational Attainment: An Intersectional Approach to the Social Psychological Model of Status Attainment  8. Real Effects of Attitudes about the Value of Education and Social Structure on the Black/White Academic Achievement Gap  9. African American Women Workers in the Postindustrial Period: The Role of Education in Evaluating Racial Wage Parity among Women  10. Race, Class and Nativity: A Multilevel Analysis of the Forgotten Working Class, 1980–2009  Part IV Health Wellness  11. What Do We Really Know: Revisiting the Stress-Health Relationship for Black Females Across the Lifespan  12. "We Need a New Normal": Sociocultural Constructions of Obesity and Overweight among African American Women  13. HIV: A Social Catastrophe  Part V Health Disparity Solutions  14. Gaining Equity in Health Care: Building the Pipeline of Black Nurse Leaders  15. Increasing Community Engagement to Meet the Challenges of Mental Health Disparities In African American Communities  16. As Seen on TV?: Hip Hop Images and Health Consequences in the Black Community  Part VI Agency and The Black Community  17. Music as Identity: Cultural Meaning, Social Hybridity and Musical Sonority In Indigenous Caribbean Music  18. Give Us the Ballot! Gaining Enfranchisement in Mobile, Alabama: 1944–50  9. The African American Church as an Enclave and Ethnic Resource: The Role of the Church in Economic Development  20. Not Televised but on Display: Exhibiting and Remembering Vestiges of the Black Freedom Movement