Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders

Blood and Shadow
Herausgeber: Hughey, Matthew W

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection is a thorough treatment of secretive social orders that illumines how these groups' varied understandings of race and ethnicity were marshalled to resist and reproduce, not only their own organizations, but racial and ethnic identity, solidarity, and inequality. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9781138217751
• ISBN-10: 1138217751
• Artikelnr.: 50445487

Autorenporträt

Matthew W. Hughey, PhD is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Chasing shadows: from the power elite to a new paradigm Matthew W.
Hughey 2. The duality of spectacle and secrecy: a case study of
fraternalism in the 1920s US Ku Klux Klan Kathleen Blee and Amy McDowell
3. Ékpè 'leopard' society in Africa and in the Americas: influence and
values of an ancient tradition Ivor Miller and Mathew Ojong 4. 'Weak
power': community and identity Brian Belton 5. Black, Greek, and read all
over: newspaper coverage of African American fraternities and sororities,
1980-2009 Matthew W. Hughey and Marcia Hernandez 6. Fraternity life at
predominantly white universities in the US: the saliency of race Rashawn
Ray 7. Why some black lodges prospered and others failed: the Good Templars
and the True Reformers David M. Fahey 8. Ardent citizens: African American
Elks and the fight for equal employment opportunities Venus Green