American sociologists

Sociology, at Texas A&M University. She has a Ph.D. from the university of Minnesota. She is a sociologist and lawyer, she has researched topics on; race and ethnicity, critical race theory, sociology of law, race/class/gender, and ethnographic methods, according to her bio…

The Historical Context of Irish Immigration While the general public of today consider the Irish as under the umbrella term “Caucasian,” there was a point in American history where Irish immigrants had the same social status as African Americans. It occurred when the largest group of poor immigrants—over a million Irish immigrants—arrived on America’s doorstep during the years of the great Irish Potato Famine which began in 1845 and ended six years later (The History Place); the catastrophe…

In the Book That means old yesterday Stay Patton audiences were white Upper/Middle class people as well as the African American Community. Stacy purpose for targeting these people because she want them to come together as a whole to understand how history, culture, stereotypes ,discrimination physical, and mental abuse that African America’s Has stuffed from. She does this by talking about the working thought-out explaining history and try to fits the things that has made the separation between…

African American to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard University, he understood the importance of education in the race torn United States (Wosmer, 2002). The emphasis on education and comprehension opens up a world of opportunities for not only African Americans, but people in general. Malcolm X, a…

UNDERSTANDING W.E. B Du Bois was an iconic essayist and sociologist of black descent. His most notable work being those he wrote about black lives in his ‘souls of black folks’ essay collection. In this critical analysis of the lives of the Negros in America, he touches upon many themes of the 20th century in relation to the colour line problem. Some of the major themes that he analyzes include, the veil, double consciousness and hope of preserving black lives heritage. Being of African descent…

Mongrel Virginians: The WIN Tribe. Sponsored by the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) and the Carnegie Foundation, Mongrel Virginians investigated the moral and social character of the Amherst County Indians. Arthur Estabrook, alongside co-author and sociologist Ivan McDougle, used family pedigrees and sociological investigation to determine the genetic and moral make-up of the group they called the “WIN” tribe, a pseudonym meant to signify their “White-Indian-Negro” ancestry. Violating both legal…

The Philadelphia Negro is a study of society among African American people in Philadelphia written by W.E.B Du Bois and published in 1899 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. It is the first sociological case study of the black community. Du Bois, the author of the Philadelphia Negro was a great African American writer, sociologist, teacher, and protest leader. He was born in 1868 in Massachusetts and died in 1963 at age 95. However, Du Bois’s great works remain forever. He live in Great…

with an African American victim and a Caucasian authority.…

“Yes We Can” were the words of a 47-year old African American senator from Illinois who would become the first Black President of the United States. I remember watching CNN as the grand projection came in and seeing crowds of people in tears of joy. Holding hands and chanting in excitement, it seemed as though a big weight had been lifted off the nation’s shoulders. Black, white and brown appeared to have become one for a night. The important thing to know is that we weren’t always separate. In…

the time of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, the United States had gone through years of upheaval and anger. The country was embroiled in the very unpopular Viet Nam War and on average 100 American soldiers were dying every week. The policies of the war were so unpopular that the sitting American president, Lyndon Johnson, had announced that he would not seek re-election (McLaughlin, 2014). Johnson became president upon…