Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
FOREWORD......Page 14
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 20
1. PUBLIC REALISM: Propounding a Critical and Empirical Black “Greek” Scholarship......Page 22
Commentary......Page 42
II. BGLOS AND THE INTERSECTION OF LEADERSHIP, RELIGION, AND CIVIL RIGHTS......Page 44
2. PASSIVE ACTIVISM: African American Fraternities and Sororities and the Push for Civil Rights......Page 46
Commentary......Page 66
3. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, COMMUNITY, AND PROFESSIONALISM: Constructing the Significance of BGLO Involvement in the Life of Loraine Richardson Green......Page 68
Commentary......Page 86
4. FAITH AND FRATERNALISM: A Doctrinal and Empirical Analysis......Page 88
Commentary......Page 110
III. THE GENDER POLITICS OF BLACK FRATERNALISM......Page 112
5. BECOMING MEN IN BURNING SANDS: Student Identity, Masculinity, and Image Construction in Black Greek-Letter Collegiate Fraternities......Page 114
Commentary......Page 131
6. BLACK GREEK-LETTER FRATERNITIES AND MASCULINITIES......Page 133
Commentary......Page 155
IV. RACIAL IDENTITY AND RACISM......Page 156
7. TRANSFORMING RACISM: Asian Pacific American Women in African American Sororities......Page 158
Commentary......Page 179
8. THE REALITIES AND CONSEQUENCES OF UNCONSCIOUS ANTIBLACK BIAS AMONG BGLO MEMBERS......Page 181
Commentary......Page 195
V. REPRESENTIN’: IMAGES OF BGLOS IN POPULAR CULTURE......Page 198
9. DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC., AS FILMMAKER: The Making and Demise of Countdown at Kusini......Page 200
Commentary......Page 209
10. “YOU MAKE THE LETTERS. THE LETTERS DON’T MAKE YOU”: The Construction of Memory and Identity in Stomp the Yard......Page 210
Commentary......Page 229
11. CHALLENGING CONTROLLING IMAGES: Appearance Enforcement within Black Sororities......Page 231
Commentary......Page 249
VI. KEEPING THINGS IN/ON LINE? HAZING AND PLEDGING......Page 252
12. FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO HAZING PRACTICES BY COLLEGIATE BLACK GREEK-LETTER FRATERNITIES DURING MEMBERSHIP INTAKE ACTIVITIES......Page 254
Commentary......Page 270
13. OLD SCHOOL VALUES AND NEW SCHOOL METHODS: Preserving the Integrity of the Pledge Process and Defending against Hazing Liability......Page 272
Commentary......Page 292
VII. EBONY IN THE IVORY TOWER: BGLOS IN HIGHER EDUCATION......Page 294
14. BLACK GREEK-LETTER ORGANIZATIONS AT PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS AND HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES......Page 296
Commentary......Page 312
15. COLLEGE STUDENT SATISFACTION AND GREEK ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP......Page 313
Commentary......Page 328
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS......Page 330
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS......Page 332
CHAPTER AUTHORS......Page 340
CHAPTER COMMENTATORS......Page 345
ABOUT THE EDITORS......Page 348
A......Page 350
B......Page 351
C......Page 352
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H......Page 354
J......Page 355
M......Page 356
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U......Page 360
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