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African American fraternities and sororities
1 online resource (525 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Black Greek-letter organization scholarship: a look backward, a look forward / Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, and Clarenda M. Phillips -- Pledged to remember: Africa in the life and lore of Black Greek-letter organizations / Gloria Harper Dickinson -- The origin and evolution of college fraternities and sororities / Craig L. Torbenson -- Faith and fraternalism: a history / Jessica Harris and Said Sewell -- Black fraternal and benevolent societies in nineteenth-century America / Anne S. Butler -- The Grand Boulé at the dawn of a new century: Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity / William H. Harris -- Education, racial uplift, and the rise of the Greek-letter tradition: the African American quest for status in the early twentieth century / Michael H. Washington and Cheryl L. Nuñ̃ez -- In the beginning: the early history of the Divine Nine / André McKenzie -- Lobbying Congress for civil rights: the American Council on Human Rights, 1948-1963 / Robert L. Harris Jr. -- Academic achievement of African American fraternities and sororities / Crystal Renée Chambers, MaryBeth Walpole, and James Coaxum III -- Lucy Diggs Slowe: not a matron but an administrator / Lisa Rasheed -- A social history of everyday practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the incorporation of black women into the American legal profession, 1925-1960 / Kenneth W. Mack -- Sister acts: resistance in Sweetheart and Little Sister Programs / Mindy Stombler and Irene Padavic -- The body art of brotherhood / Sandra Mizumoto Posey -- Calls: an inquiry into their origin, meaning, and function / Marcella L. McCoy -- Variegated roots: the foundations of stepping / Carol D. Branch -- What a man: the relationship between black fraternity stereotypes and black sorority mate selection / Marcia D. Hernandez [and others] -- Racisim, sexism, and aggression: a study of black and white fraternities / Tyra Black, Joanne Belknap, and Jennifer Ginsburg -- The empty space of African American sorority representation: Spike Lee's School daze / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- "Bloody, but unbowed": making meaning of "Invictus" and "If--" for the shaping of a collective black Greek identitiy / Rashawn Ray, Danielle Heard, and Ted Ingram -- The continuing presence of hazing during the Fraternity Membership Intake Process Post / Jerryl Briggs.
edited by Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, Clarenda M. Phillips.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-510) and index.