Black Cultures and Race Relations

by Conyers, James L., Jr.; Aldridge, Delores P.; Donaldson, Shawn Riva; N. Toure, Ahati N.; Wilson, Leslie E.; Turner, Karen M.; Dabel, Jane E.; Chambers, James; Veal, Don-Terry; Weems, Robert E., Jr.; Collins, Lee E.; Caldwell, Leon D.; Hinton, Robert; Smal

• ISBN13: 9780830415748
• ISBN10: 0830415742
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The essays in this book examine black cultural issues from the inside out, rather than from a majority perspective. Topics are grouped into four categories: historical studies on race; policy, economics, and race; educational studies and race; and social and cultural studies on race. Readers of this volume will gain a deeper understanding of the past and present realities experienced by black people in the United States. Sweeping changes have taken place in American society, but much work remains to be done before black Americans will no longer face the daily challenges created by racist stereotyping and assumptions. This book will furnish absorbing reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of black-white relations in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Delores P. Aldridge
PART 1: HISTORICAL STUDIES ON RACE	1	(88)
Interracial Rape Cases in North Carolina (1837-1856): A Socio-Historical Perspective	3	(13)
Shawn Riva Donaldson
Nineteenth Century African Historians in the United States: Explorations of Cultural Location and National Destiny	16	(35)
Ahati N. N. Toure
All May Not Be What It Seems	51	(9)
Leslie E. Wilson
Karen M. Turner
African American Women and Household Composition in New York City, 1827-1877	60	(13)
Jane E. Dabel
Martin Luther King, Jr., Leadership, Oratory, and Scholarship: A Biography of Culture and Memory	73	(16)
James L. Conyers, Jr.
PART 2: POLICY, ECONOMICS, AND RACE	89	(80)
Myths Regarding Parricide	91	(34)
James Chambers
A Shift in the Prevailing Theory of Urban Economic Growth Policy	125	(17)
Don-Terry Veal
The End of Black Nationalism? Declining African American Consumer Support for Black-Owned Businesses	142	(12)
Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Critical Race Theory: Themes, Perspective, and Directions	154	(15)
Lee E. Collins
PART 3: EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND RACE	169	(72)
Fear of a Black Beret: Black College Students from Activism to Apathy	171	(11)
Leon D. Caldwell
Harlem Rides the Range: Black Studies and the West	182	(10)
Robert Hinton
African American Student Success, Africana Studies, and the University Community: A Critical Partnership, for the New Millennium	192	(13)
Andrew P. Smallwood
The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program	205	(18)
Charles E. Simmons
The Role of Race and Culture in the Science Classroom	223	(18)
Carol T. Taylor Mitchell
PART 4: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES ON RACE	241	(122)
The Culture Wars: Notes from the Front	243	(12)
Bruce E. Johansen
The Mis-Education of the African American Minister: Considerations for Changes in Developing Pastors	255	(20)
Kevin J. Jones
The Social Construction of Race: A Reflexive Analysis	275	(18)
James L. Conyers, Jr.
The Intracultural ``Crippling'' of African Americans with Disabilities	293	(18)
Sharon V. King
Politics, Praxis, and the Function of Black Culture	311	(7)
Chishamiso T. Rowley
Shattering the Social Construction of the Violent Black Male	318	(8)
Gloria Mushonga Roberts
Cultural Misorientation among Africans in America	326	(19)
Kobi K. K. Kambon
Joseph A. Baldwin
``Nobody Wants a Dark Child'': Examining the Color Complex in African American Literature and Culture	345	(18)
Gloria T. Randle
Contributors	363	(4)
Index	367