African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision

African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision

African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision

African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision

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Overview

In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African American fraternities and sororities have strong traditions of fostering brotherhood and sisterhood among their members, exerting considerable influence in the African American community, and being in the forefront of civic action, community service, and philanthropy. African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision places the history of these organizations in context, linking them to other movements and organizations that predated them and tying their history to one of the most important eras of United State history-the civil rights struggle. The book explores various cultural aspects of the organizations, such as auxiliary groups, branding, calls, and stepping, and highlights the unique role of African American sororities.

Exploring the rich past and bright future of the nine organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council, African Fraternities and Sororities reveals the vital social and political functions of black Greek-letter organizations and examines their influence and service to the African American community and the nation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813135816
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 02/29/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 552
Sales rank: 914,946
File size: 7 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Tamara L. Brown, associate professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, is a founding member of the Pi Mu chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at Longwood University in Virginia. Gregory S. Parks, assistant professor of law at Wake Forest University School of Law, is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He is the editor of Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the 21st Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun and coeditor of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence Clarenda M. Phillips is professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Social Work at Morehead State University.

Table of Contents

Pledged to Remember: Africa in the Life and Lore of Black Greek-Letter Organizations
The Origin and Evolution of College Fraternities and Sororities
Faith and Fraternalism: A History
Black Fraternal and Benevolent Societies in Nineteenth-Century America
The Grand Boulé at the Dawn of a New Century: Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
Education, Racial Uplift, and the Rise of the Greek-Letter Tradition: The African American Quest for Status in the Early Twentieth Century
In The Beginning: The Early History of the Divine Nine
Lobbying Congress for Civil Rights: The American Council on Human Rights, 1948-1963
Academic Achievement of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Lucy Diggs Slowe: Not a Matron but an Administrator
A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T. M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1935-1960
Sister Acts: Resistance in Sweetheart and Little Sister Programs
The Body Art of Brotherhood
Calls: An Inquiry into Their Origin, Meaning, and Function
Variegated Roots: The Foundations of Stepping
What a Man: The Relationship between Black Fraternity Stereotypes and Black Sorority Mate Selection
Racism, Sexism, and Aggression: A Study of Black and White Fraternities
The Empty Space of African American Sorority Representation: Spike Lee's School Daze
Bloody, but Unbowed: Making Meaning of Invictus and If— for the Shaping of a Collective Black Greek Identity
The Continuing Presence of Hazing during the Fraternity Membership intake Process Post 1990

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