In Introduction to Africana Demography: Lessons from Founders E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Atlanta School of Sociology scholars from across the country wed Black Sociology with critical demography within an Africana Demography framework. Contributors speak to innovative ways to address pressing issues and have the added benefit of affording many of the scholars denied their rightful place in the sociological and demographic canons. Specifically, the book includes an introduction outlining Africana demography and chapters that provide a critique of conventional demographic approaches to understanding race and social institutions, such as the family, religion, and the criminal justice system.
Contributors include: Lori Latrice Martin, Anthony Hill, Melinda Jackson-Jefferson, Maretta McDonald, Weldon McWilliams, Jack S. Monell, Edward Muhammad, Brianne Painia, Tifanie Pulley, David I. Rudder, Jas M. Sullivan, Arthur Whaley, and Deadric Williams.
Lori Latrice Martin, Ph.D. (2006), University at Albany, SUNY, is Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Big Box Schools (Lexington Books, 2015), among other scholarly publications.
âAcknowledgements
âList of Figures and Tables
âNotes on Contributors
âIntroduction
âLori Latrice Martin
Part 1: Africana Demography and Migration, Fertility, and Mortality
â1 Carceral Migration: an Africana Demographic Reframing of Post-release Pathways for Formerly Incarcerated Populations
âBrianne Painia
â2 Child Support Enforcement as Social Control: Black Fathers and Multi-partner Fertility
âMaretta McDonald
Part 2: Africana Demography and Policing
â3 Us versus Them: âWe Are More Fearful of the Police than the Actual Criminalsâ
âMelinda Jackson-Jefferson
â4 Policing the Black Community: History, Reality, and the Rudiments of Change
âEdward Muhammad and Jack S. Monell
â5 African Americansâ Response to Discrimination: Does Region Matter?
âJas M. Sullivan
Part 3: Africana Demography and Bridging Racial Gaps
â6 Rethinking Black Families in Poverty: Postcolonial Critiques and Critical Race Possibilities
âDeadric Williams
â7 Embodying a Hybrid Habitus: Identity Construction and Social Mobility among Working-class Black Women
âTifanie Pulley and Arthur Whaley
â8 A Black Theology of Liberation: the Black Church and a Living Wage
âWeldon McWilliams
â9 Reducing the Achievement Gap of African Americans through a Mental Health Lens
âDavid I. Rudder and Anthony Hill
Index
Demography, Sociology, African and African American Studies, Families, Criminology, Womenâs and Genderâs Studies, American Religion, African American Religion