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Author Aldridge, Delores P.

Title Imagine a world : pioneering black women sociologists / Delores P. Aldridge
Published Lanham : University Press of America, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Six women scholars in the framing of social theory and social change -- Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson "new age policy advocate" -- La Francis Rodgers-Rose "myth buster: the science of mass appeal" -- Joyce A. Ladner "seeing the glass half full and other racial notions" -- Doris Wilkinson "fighting words: the creative intellect as weapon" -- Delores P. Aldridge "the wisdom of the humanist whole" / by Lauren Rauscher -- Vivian V. Gordon "self defining as fundamental" -- Common intellectual threads of those who dare "imagine-- " -- Summary
Summary This book focuses on the lives of five unique, nationally known sociologists who are among the first African American women to receive doctorate degrees in this discipline:Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, LaFrancis Rodgers-Rose, Joyce A. Ladner, Doris Wilkinson, and Delores P. Aldridge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index
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Subject African American sociologists.
Women sociologists -- United States
Sociology -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
African American sociologists
Sociology
Women sociologists
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780761841876
0761841873