ABERRATIONS IN BLACK

The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But wh at is missing from the picture-sexual difference-can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Fergu son reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology-Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Julius Wilson-has measured African...[Leer más]