Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

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· Univ. Press of Mississippi
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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.

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Matthew W. Hughey is professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. He holds affiliate faculty positions at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), the University of Barcelona (Spain), and the University of Cambridge (England). The author of nine scholarly books and over eighty peer-reviewed articles, he has received numerous awards and support from sources such as the American Sociological Association, Fulbright Commission, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Gregory S. Parks is a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and editor of Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun.

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