The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

Earl Wright II is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Rhodes College, USA, and co-editor of Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age. Edward V. Wallace is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

Part I Black Sociology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1. Black Sociology: Continuing the Agenda 2. Black Sociology: The Sociology of Knowledge, Racialized Power Relations of Knowledge and Humanistic Liberation Part II Black Youth, Emerging Adults and The Family 3. The Death of Trayvon Martin and Public Space: Why the Racial Contract Still Matters 4. Is it Easy Living in the Big Easy?: Examining the Lives of African American Emerging Adults in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 5. The Psychosocial Impact of Parental Incarceration on Children and their Caregivers 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 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 8. Real Effects of Attitudes about the Value of Education and Social Structure on the Black/White Academic Achievement Gap 9. African American Women Workers in the Postindustrial Period: The Role of Education in Evaluating Racial Wage Parity among Women 10. Race, Class and Nativity: A Multilevel Analysis of the Forgotten Working Class, 1980–2009 Part IV Health Wellness 11. What Do We Really Know: Revisiting the Stress-Health Relationship for Black Females Across the Lifespan 12. "We Need a New Normal": Sociocultural Constructions of Obesity and Overweight among African American Women 13. HIV: A Social Catastrophe Part V Health Disparity Solutions 14. Gaining Equity in Health Care: Building the Pipeline of Black Nurse Leaders 15. Increasing Community Engagement to Meet the Challenges of Mental Health Disparities In African American Communities 16. As Seen on TV?: Hip Hop Images and Health Consequences in the Black Community Part VI Agency and The Black Community 17. Music as Identity: Cultural Meaning, Social Hybridity and Musical Sonority In Indigenous Caribbean Music 18. Give Us the Ballot! Gaining Enfranchisement in Mobile, Alabama: 1944–50 9. The African American Church as an Enclave and Ethnic Resource: The Role of the Church in Economic Development 20. Not Televised but on Display: Exhibiting and Remembering Vestiges of the Black Freedom Movement