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African American fraternities and sororities : the legacy and the vision /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Brown, Tamara L., 1967- (Editor), Parks, Gregory, 1974- (Editor), Phillips, Clarenda M., 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2012]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Greek letter societies > United States > History.
African American college students > Societies, etc. > History.
Greek letter societies.
United States.
Schwarze.
Studentenverbindung.
USA.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.