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African American Fraternities and Sororities : The Legacy and the Vision /
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presen...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pledged to Remember; 2. The Origin and Evolution of College Fraternities and Sororities; 3. Faith and Fraternalism; 4. Black Fraternal and Benevolent Societies in Nineteenth-Century America; 5. The Grand Boule at the Dawn of a New Century; 6. Education, Racial Uplift, and the Rise of the Greek-Letter Tradition; 7. In the Beginning; 8. Lobbying Congress for Civil Rights; 9. Academic Achievement of African American Fraternities and Sororities; 10. Lucy Diggs Slowe; 11. A Social History of Everyday Practice; PHOTO INSERT.
- 12. Sister Acts13. The Body Art of Brotherhood; 14. Calls; 15. Variegated Roots; 16. What a Man; 17. Racism, Sexism, and Aggression; 18. The Empty Space of African American Sorority Representation; 19. "Bloody, but Unbowed"; 20. The Continuing Presence of Hazing during the Fraternity Membership Intake Process Post 1990; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.