1st Edition

Historical Foundations of Black Reflective Sociology

By John H Stanfield II Copyright 2011
    317 Pages
    by Routledge

    317 Pages
    by Routledge

    John H. Stanfield II, a leading historian of Black social science, distills decades of his research and thinking in a set of articles—some original to the volume, others from fugitive sources—that trace the trajectories of Black scholars and scholarship in relationship to the broader African American experience over the past two centuries. Stanfield’s signature contributions to this research tradition range from the role of philanthropy in the study and life of African Americans to institutional racism in sociology and the impacts of race on scholarly careers. His analyses run from global formulations to individual biographies, including his own, and stretch from the early decades of social science to the present. This work creates a nuanced historical context for reflective Black sociology that will be of interest to social historians, sociologists, and scholars of color from all disciplines.

    Introduction: On Becoming and Being a Historical Sociologist of 9 Knowledge Part I: Autobiographical Studies Chapter 1. The Stranger in Sociology: The Power Games of Race Relations Chapter 2. Charlie Part II: Race Philanthropy in the Origins of 20th Century Black Sociological Studies Chapter 3. Race Philanthropy: Personalities, Institutions, Networks, and Communities, Chapter 4. Philanthropic Regional Consciousness and Institution-Building in the American South: The Formative Years, 1867–1920, Chapter 5. Leonard Outhwaite’s Advocacy of Scientific Research on Blacks in the 1920s, Chapter 6. The Cracked Back Door: Foundations and Black Social Scientists between the World Wars, Chapter 7. Dollars for the Silent South: Southern White Liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928–1948, Part III: Blacks in Sociology: Historical Trends and Contextualized Biographical Cases Chapter 8. The “Negro Problem” within and beyond the Institutional Nexus of Pre-World War I Sociology Chapter 9. Race Relations Research and Black Americans between the Two World Wars Chapter 10. Bitter Canaan: Charles S. Johnson as Sociologist of African American and African Sociological Thought Chapter 11. Teaching Sociology in Historically Black Colleges and Universities Chapter 12. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Public Sociologist Chapter 13. Race Relations Research between the 1940s and 1970s: Introduction to A History of Race Relations Research Chapter 14. Hylan Lewis’ Blackways of Kent Chapter 15. Black Radical Sociological Thought Chapter 16. African Diasporic Sociology Part IV: The Political Sociology of “When Things Change and Remain the Same”: The Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Race in the American Academy Chapter 17. Not Quite in the Club Chapter 18. The Race Politics of Knowledge Production Chapter 19. Gazing Through the Kitchen Window: Race and Elite Academic Employment in Post-1970s America

    Biography

    Stanfield II, John H