Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought

Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar is Associate Professor of Sociology at Howard University, where she has served as graduate program director for close to ten years. Her research interests are race/ethnicity, gender, the life course, and “place” disparities in health and criminal justice. Her research and teaching incorporate Black sociological perspectives that explain the influence of race on the opportunity structure of minorities and the fundamental social inequalities that significantly impact their health, socioeconomic, material, political, and other outcomes. Nazneen M. Khan is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Randolph-Macon College, where she also serves as Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Using intersectional theory and methodology, her research and teaching focuses on families, children, and reproductive health and wellbeing in a US context. Her recent scholarship can be read in Contexts, Children & Society, and Sociological Focus. She is also editor of COVID-19 and Childhood Inequality (2022).

Introduction

Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar and Nazneen M. Khan

PART I: Black Epistemology: Black Feminist Epistemology

1 Anna Julia Cooper

2 Audre Lorde

3 Fatou Sow

4 Rose Brewer

5 Patricia Hill Collins

6 Ruth Wilson Gilmore

7 bell hooks

8 Combahee River Collective

Black Insurgent Sociology

9 James Edward Blackwell

10 Archie Mafeje

11 Delores P. Aldridge

12 Joyce Ladner

13 Aldon Morris

14 Earl Wright II

PART II: Black Geopolitics

15 Booker T. Washington

16 W.E.B. Du Bois

17 Charles S. Johnson

18 Oliver Cromwell Cox

19 C.L.R. James

20 Horace R. Cayton, Jr.

21 St. Clair Drake

22 Frantz Fanon

23 Stuart Hall

24 Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte

25 William Julius Wilson

26 Cedric Robinson

27 Walter Rodney

28 Esteban Miguel Morales Domínguez

29 Elijah Anderson

30 Amina Mama

PART III: Black Oppression, Black Resistance

31 Ida B. Wells-Barnett

32 Monroe Nathan Work

33 Derrick Bell

34 Beatriz Nascimento

35 Angela Davis

36 Manning Marable

37 Loretta J. Ross

38 Cornel West

39 Dorothy Roberts

40 Lawrence D. Bobo

41 Kimberlé Crenshaw

42 Ruha Benjamin

43 Kehinde Andrews

PART IV: Black Families and Communities

44 Zora Neale Hurston

45 E. Franklin Frazier

46 Ira De Augustine Reid

47 Andrew Billingsley

48 Toni Morrison

49 Nathan Hare

50 Doris Y. Wilkinson