Journal of Black Studies articles from September 1997

Journal of Black Studies archives from September 1997

"The chain remain the same:" communicative practices in the hip-hop nation.
September 1, 1997... It is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. Baldwin (1992) The...

Political violence and the uprooted in the horn of Africa: a study of refugee flows from Ethiopia.
September 1, 1997... General population movements, particularly migrations, are usually explained in terms of "push" and "pull" factors influencing individuals to leave their habitual residence and settle elsewhere. The "push" factor provides the migrant with the...

Blacks as key functionaries: a study of racial stratification in professional sport.
September 1, 1997... Key functionaries are positions within a social system that are capable of influencing and performing crucial activities (Olsen, 1978, pp. 25-26). As a result of their location, these positions are centers of power and control (Buckley, 1966,...

Racial and nonracial factors that influence spouse choice in black/white marriages.
September 1, 1997... Biracial marriage has historically been an important barometer of race relations in the United States. Mores prohibiting biracial marriage have existed for every ethnic and racial group that has occupied a subordinate position in American...

Understanding violence among young African American males: an Afrocentric perpective.
September 1, 1997... African American teenagers are 3 to 5 times more likely than European-American youth to be murder victims (U.S. Department of Justice, 1991). They are also more likely to be victims of robbery and aggravated assault (U.S. Department of Justice,...

Differential punishing of African Americans and whites who possess drugs: a just policy or a continuation of the past?
September 1, 1997... Five African Americans in Minnesota were arrested and charged with possession of a cocaine base, known on the street as crack. The statute that they were charged under provided that possession of 3 or more grams of crack cocaine was a...

Conspiracy theories as ethnosociologies: explanation and intention in African American political culture.
September 1, 1997... Attributing social maladies to deliberate plots by hostile conspirators is an American political tradition dating back to the 1760s, beginning with rumors of a British plan to remove colonists' rights and continuing through to the John F....

Seizing the Word (History, Art, and Self in the Work of W.E.B. Dubois).
September 1, 1997... In his latest book-length discourse on W.E.B. DuBois' (1994) Seizing the Word, Indiana State University (ISU) professor of English and literature, Keith Eldon Byerman, observes that the great Ghanaian American polymath's life encapsulated a...

Out of America.
September 1, 1997... The fact that the majority media has glorified a book that is the direct result of the impact of racism on an erstwhile victim shows the bizarre nature of racism in America. A Black journalist, Keith Richburg, has written a book, Out of...