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Haters
Whether it be from 1990s hip-hop music or the Chapelle Show, haters have been ubiquitous in modern culture but never truly analyzed. Haters, addresses several issues: What is a "hater" and how are their subconscious and emotions implicated in their irrational behavior? What factors serve as an underlying trigger for hate? What tools does the hater deploy to harm the object of their hate? What can be done to counter that hate? Why are social media and organizations fertile ground for hate?
The Harms and Hazards of Hazing
Hazing, as a human social phenomenon, is witnessed throughout history and in various social groups. Incidences of hazing have been documented among military groups, athletic teams, marching bands, as well as fraternities and sororities. While hazing, undoubtedly, occurs across the spectrum of human culture, its current manifestation in the United States can be uniquely violent and dangerous. In addition to personal harm to aspiring members, hazing may result in a range of legal consequences ranging from criminal to civil sanctions against the organizations or individual members. In this work, major hazing incidents within high school and college athletics, fraternities/sororities, marching b...
The Wrongs of the Right
On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: “OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout.” But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a “Lyin African” and conservative cartoons that showed the new president surrounded by racist stereotypes like watermelons and fried chicken.Despite the utopian proclamations that we are now live in a color-blind, postracial country, the grim reality is that implicit racial biases are more entrenched than ever. InWrongs of the Right, Matthew W. Hughey and Greg...
Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0
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 socio-economic 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.
Stardust Dads
The e-mail Danny and Allison read on their new computer in 1996 looks no different from the millions of others received by Web users around the world, with one glaring exception--it was sent by their dads who died during the 1970s. While residing in the afterworld at an amenity-laden paradise called Midway Manor, guitar-strumming Mickey Parks and piano-playing Lloyd Wallace monitor and manipulate the lives of their adult children on earth from the mid-'70s through the 1990s. Tampering with the facility's sophisticated computer, the dads thrust Mickey's daughter Allison and Lloyd's son Danny into a passionate but sometimes stormy relationship-a relationship steeped in Danny's heavy drinking and entangled in the often-zany world of men's adventure magazine publishing. After carefully implementing a plan to send their son and daughter a gift of knowledge that could enrich their lives forever, the dads' brief contact is cut short. They are banished to another destination in the afterworld, but not before they impart indisputable proof of life after death--and unwittingly put Danny's and Allison's earthbound lives on the line.
Paradigm Shift
At the heart of why hazing persists, and why it has been so difficult to meaningfully prevent, is that we still know so little about it. Just a handful of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives have circumscribed our understanding of hazing. Paradigm Shift: Rethinking the Persistence of Hazing greatly expands our understanding of what undergirds and propels hazing by: (1) considering the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community dynamics that influence it; (2) distilling the accessible empirical research on the topic; (3) incorporating the range of untested theories that have been used to understand hazing; and (4) harnessing a broader range of empirically-tested theories, in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, to add more nuance to our understanding of hazing. Ultimately, this approach greatly expands how we think about hazing and offers new and more fruitful paths for solutions.
Disciplining Women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
The Sherlock Effect
Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who—inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials—piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes—the iconic fictional detective, and the invention of forensic doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—is held up as a paragon of forensic and scientific inspiration—does not "reason forward" as most people do, but "reasons backwards." Put more plainly, rather than learning the train of events and seeing whether the resultant clues match those events, Holmes determines what happened in the past by looking at...
Jump Cut
Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman is back after a decade, entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to destroy what she holds most dear.
A Pledge with Purpose
Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized by the majority-white student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started the first, intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO), Alpha Phi Alpha. Since their founding, BGLOs have not only served to solidify bonds among many African American college students, they have also imbued them with a sense of purpose and a commitment to racial uplift—the endeavor to help Black Americans reach so...
