Author:
Wright, Earl, II.
Imprint:Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, [2015]
Description305 pages ; 24 cm
Note:PART I: BLACK SOCIOLOGY: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. 1. Black Sociology: Continuing the Agenda / Earl Wright II and Edward V. Wallace ; 2. Black Sociology: The Sociology of Knowledge, Racialized Power Relations of Knowledge and Humanistic Liberation / Jennifer Padilla Wyse -- PART II: BLACK YOUTH, EMERGING ADULTS AND THE FAMILY. 3. The Death of Trayvon Martin and Public Space: Why the Racial Contract Still Matters / Darwin Fishman ; 4. Is it Easy Living in the Big Easy?: Examining the Lives of African American Emerging Adults in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Farrah Gafford Cambrice ; 5. The Psychosocial Impact of Parental Incarceration on Children and their Caregivers / Sheridan Quarless Kingsberry, Sachin Karnik, Natalie M. Fountain and Kelly Wetzel ; 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 / Clare Walsh -- 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 / Tomeka Davis and Taralyn Keese ; 8. Real Effects of Attitudes about the Value of Education and Social Structure on the Black/White Academic Achievement Gap / Ervin (Maliq) Matthew and Littisha Bates ; 9. African American Women Workers in the Postindustrial Period: The Role of Education in Evaluating Racial Wage Parity among Women / Katrinell M. Davis ; 10. Race, Class and Nativity: A Multilevel Analysis of the Forgotten Working Class, 1980-2009 / Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick Horton and Teresa A. Booker -- PART IV: HEALTH WELNESS. 11. What Do We Really Know: Revisiting the Stress-Health Relationship for Black Females Across the Lifespan / Claire M. Norris, Krista D. Mincey, Brian Turner and Makeda Roberts ; 12. "We Need a New Normal": Sociocultural Constructions of Obesity and Overweight among African American Women / Angelique Harris, David Nelson, Kimberly Salas Harris, Barbara A. Horner-Ibler and Edith Burns ; 13. HIV: A Social Catastrophe / Marye Bernard and Malinda R. Conrad -- PART V: HEALTH DISPARITY SOLUTIONS. 14. Gaining Equity in Health Care: Building the Pipeline of Black Nurse Leaders / Yvonne Wesley ; 15. Increasing Community Engagement to Meet the Challenges of Mental Health Disparities In African American Communities / Edward V. Wallace ; 16. As Seen on TV?: Hip Hop Images and Health Consequences in the Black Community / Omotayo O. Banjo, Guy-Lucien Whembolua, Shewanee Howard-Baptiste, Nathaniel Frederick II and Jerod D. Lindsey -- PART VI: AGENCY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY. 17. Music as Identity: Cultural Meaning, Social Hybridity and Musical Sonority In Indigenous Caribbean Music / Meagan Sylvester ; 18. Give Us the Ballot! Gaining Enfranchisement in Mobile, Alabama: 1944-50 / Timothy Broughton and Komanduri S. Murty ; 19. The African American Church as an Enclave and Ethnic Resource: The Role of the Church in Economic Development / Marci Bounds Littlefield ; 20. Not Televised but on Display: Exhibiting and Remembering Vestiges of the Black Freedom Movement / Derrick R. Brooms.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
