Full Description
Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers. It implores readers to integrate the research of Black scholars into their teaching and research, and fundamentally, to rethink the dominant epistemological claims and philosophical underpinnings of the Western social sciences. It features 50 chapters, written by 55 scholars who explore the diverse contributions of notable Black thinkers, both historical and contemporary.
Four thematic areas organize this work—Black epistemology, Black geopolitics, Black oppression and resistance, and Black families and communities. Through a close analysis of the fifty thinkers presented here, the chapters explore these themes while dismantling the whitewashed disciplinary histories, methodologies, and content that obscure and/or subjugate the significance of Black social thought. In addition to offering insightful and timely analysis, each chapter offers suggested readings for readers who would like to dive deeper into the work of Black social thinkers.
This volume offers an accessible starting point for exploring the work of Black scholars past and present and their contributions to sociology and the social sciences more broadly. It is useful to students, academics, practitioners, and the lay public who are curious about Black social thought.
Contents
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
