At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the "talented tenth." This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class, motivated individuals who acquired the professional credentials, skills, and capital to assist the race to attain socioeconomic parity. Today, however, BGLOs struggle to find their place and direction in a world drastically different from the one that witnessed their genesis. In recent years, there has been a growing body of scholarship on BGLOs. This collection of essays seeks to push those who think about BGLOs to engage in more critically and empirically based analysis. This book also seeks to move BGLO members and those who work with them beyond conclusions based on hunches, conventional wisdom, intuition, and personal experience. In addition to a rich range of scholars, this volume includes a kind of call and response feature between scholars and prominent members of the BGLO community.
Matthew W. Hughey & Gregory S. Parks
Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0 [PDF ebook]
New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0 [PDF ebook]
New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities
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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 320 ● ISBN 9781604739220 ● Editor Matthew W. Hughey & Gregory S. Parks ● Editura University Press of Mississippi ● Publicat 2011 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 5934698 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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