2015
NOEL A. CAZENAVE
CURRICULUM VITAE
POSITIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology,
The University of Connecticut
Faculty. Department of Sociology, The University of Connecticut,
Unit 1068, Manchester Hall, Storrs, CT 06269-2068
(860) 486-4190, FAX (860) 486-6356, www.sociology.uconn.edu
Faculty. Urban and Community Studies, The University of Connecticut,
85 Lawler Road, West Hartford, CT 06117-2697
(860) 570-9222, FAX (860) 570-9199, www.urban.uconn.edu
Faculty Affiliations at the University of Connecticut. Africana Studies Institute,
www.africana.uconn.edu; American Studies, www.americanstudies.uconn.edu
Work Email Address: [email protected]
Home Address: 6 Atwood Street, Unit B, Hartford, CT 06105-1801
Phone and FAX (860) 548-9799
EDUCATION:
Postdoctoral Study. University of Pennsylvania, Fall, 1989
and University of New Hampshire, December 1977-June1978.
Ph.D. Sociology. Tulane University. December, 1977.
M.A. Psychology. University of Michigan. December, 1971.
B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Psychology. Dillard University, New Orleans, LA, June, 1970.
BOOKS:
2015 Noel A. Cazenave, Conceptualizing Racism: Breaking the Chains of Racially
Accommodative Language. Forthcoming in November. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
2011 Noel A. Cazenave, The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relations in American Cities.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
2007 Noel A. Cazenave, Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty
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Community Action Programs. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.
2001 Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel A. Cazenave Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card
Against America’s Poor. New York: Routledge.
Recognition for Impossible Democracy
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, 2008. Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.
Awards for Welfare Racism
Michael Harrington Distinguished Scholarship Award, 2003. National Forum on Poverty and
Inequality. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems and other organizations.
Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship, 2002. American Sociological Association, Section on
Race, Gender and Class.
Outstanding Book Award, 2002. American Sociological Association, Section on Marxist
Sociology.
Co-Winner, Oliver C. Cox Distinguished Book Award, 2002. American Sociological
Association, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
Outstanding Book Award, 2002. Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human
Rights in North America.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
2014 Noel A. Cazenave, “Teaching about Systemic White Racism,” pp. 249-256 of Kristin
Haltinner, ed., Teaching about Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Adding Context
to Colorblindness (New York: Springer, 2014).
2004 Noel A. Cazenave and Nancy A. Naples, “Community Organizing,” pp. 203-206 in
Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds., Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of
History, Politics, and Policy. Volume II. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
2002 Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel A. Cazenave, “Welfare Racism and its Consequences: The
Demise and the Return of the States’ Rights Era,” pp. 35-53 of Frances Fox Piven, et al,eds.,
Work, Welfare and Politics. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon.
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2001 Noel A. Cazenave and Kenneth J. Neubeck. “Fighting Welfare Racism.” Poverty and Race
10(2):1-2, 6-7.
2001 Noel A. Cazenave and Kenneth J. Neubeck. “Welfare Reform as Race Population Control:
The Abolition of AFDC, and Beyond.” Abafazi 2(1): 8-19.
2000 “War on Poverty,” pp.774-777 in Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan, eds., Civil
Rights in the United States, Volume II, New York: Macmillan Reference.
2000 Noel A. Cazenave and Darlene Alvarez Maddern. “Defending the White Race: White Male
Faculty Opposition to a ‘White Racism’ Course.” Race and Society 2(1): 25-50.
1999 “Ironies of Urban Reform: Professional Turf Battles in the Planning of the Mobilization for
Youth Program Precursor to the War on Poverty.” Journal of Urban History 26(1):22-43.
1993 "Chicago Influences on the War on Poverty." Journal of Policy History 5(1):52-68.
1992 Noel A. Cazenave and Margaret A. Zahn, "Women, Murder, and Male Domination: Police
Reports of Domestic Violence in Chicago and Philadelphia," pp. 83-97 in Emilio Viano, ed.,
Intimate Violence. Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere.
1990 “North Philadelphia: Demographic Transition, Economic Change, Public Policy and Social
Consequences Two Decades after the Riot of 1964.” National Journal of Sociology 4(2), Fall:
199-230.
1990 Noel A. Cazenave and Rita Smith, "Gender Differences in the Perception of Black MaleFemale Relationships and Stereotypes," pp. 149-170 in Harold E. Cheatham and James B.
Stewart, eds., Black Families: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction
Books.
1988 "From a Committed-Achiever to a Radical Social Scientist: The Life Course Dialectics of
a ‘Marginal’ Black American Sociologist." The American Sociologist 19(4):347-354.
1987 Noel A. Cazenave and George Leon "Men's Work and Family Roles and Characteristics:
Race, Gender, and Class Perceptions of College Students," pp. 244-262 in Michael Kimmel, ed.,
Changing Men: New Directions in Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
1986 Noel A. Cazenave and Janet Harrison Shannon. "Black Families' Perceptions of Nuclear
Power and Nuclear Arms Issues: A Pilot Study," Marriage and Family Review 10(2):85-112.
1985 "Race, Class, Ideology and Changing Black Family Structures and Processes," pp. 35-66 in
Myfana Tryman, ed., Institutional Racism and Blacks in America: Challenges, Choices, Change,
Volume I. Lexington, MA: Ginn Press.
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1984 "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Age: The Social Context of American Masculinity."
Sex Roles 11 (7-8):639-656.
1983 "Elder Abuse and Black Americans: Incidence, Correlates, Treatment and Prevention,"
pp.187-204 in Jordan I. Koshberg, ed., Abuse and Maltreatment of the Elderly: Causes and
Interventions. London: John Wright, PSG.
1983 "Black Male-Black Female Relationships: The Perceptions of 155 Middle-Class Black
Men." Family Relations 32 (3):341-350.
1983 “‘A Woman's Place’: The Attitudes of Middle-Class Black Men." Phylon 44 (1):12-32.
1981 "Black Men in America: The Quest for `Manhood'," pp. 176-185 in Harriette McAdoo, ed.,
Black Families (1st edition) Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
1980 "Alternate Intimacy, Marriage and Family Lifestyles among Low-Income Black
Americans," Alternative Lifestyles 4 (3):425-444.
1979 "Middle-Income Black Fathers: An Analysis of the Provider Role." The Family
Coordinator 28:583-593.
1979 Noel A. Cazenave and Murray A. Straus. "Race, Class, Network Embeddedness and
Family Violence: A Search for Potent Support Systems." Journal of Comparative Family Studies
X: 281-300.
1979 "Social Structure and Personal Choice: Effects on Intimacy, Marriage and the Family
Alternative Lifestyles Research," Alternative Lifestyles 2:331-358.
1979 "Family Violence and Aging Blacks: Theoretical Perspectives and Research Possibilities."
Journal of Minority Aging 4:99-108.
1977 "Middle-Income Black Fathers: Family Interaction, Transaction and Development,
Research Notes." Human Mosaic,10, Index Issue.
ARTICLE REPRINTS:
1993 "Chicago Influences on the War on Poverty," pp. 52-68 in Martin V. Melosi, ed., Urban
Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State
University Press.
1990 with Murray A. Straus, "Race, Class, Network Embeddedness, and Family Violence: A
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Search for Potent Support Systems," pp. 321-339 in Murray A. Straus and Richard J. Gelles,
eds., Physical Violence in American Families. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction.
EDITED JOURNAL ISSUE:
1980 Special Editor, Issue of Alternative Lifestyles on Black Alternate Lifestyles. Vol. 3, No. 4.
PUBLISHED REPORTS:
1988 "Philadelphia's Children in Need: Black, White, Brown, Yellow and Poor," pp.
47-62 in the Urban League of Philadelphia, The State of Black Philadelphia, Volume VII.
1983 "Black Families at the Crossroads? Retrospect and Prospects," pp. 7-28 in the
Urban League of Philadelphia, The State of Black Philadelphia, 1983.
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY:
1987 "Book Review Essay: Socialism, Nationalism and Social Policy." Cedric J. Robinson's
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. London: Zed Press. Research in
Social Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 1:213-227.
BOOK REVIEWS:
2000 Joe Feagin’s Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. New
York: Routledge, in Race & Society 3:91-92.
1998 Jessie Daniels’ White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist
Discourse. New York: Routledge, in the American Journal of Sociology 103(4):1153-1154.
1991 Barbara Ballis Lal's The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization: Robert E. Park on
Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities. London: Routledge, in Social Forces 69(4):1265-1266.
1983 Robert Staples' Black Masculinity: The Black Male's Role in American Society. San
Francisco: Black Scholar Press, in Contemporary Sociology 12 (2):223-224.
1983 Ronald L. Howard's A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies XIV (1):136-138.
1983 Michael E. Lamb's Nontraditional Families: Parenting and Child Development. Hillsdale,
N.J.: Erlbaum, in Alternative Lifestyles 5(3):184-186.
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1982 Doris Y. Wilkinson and Ronald L. Taylor, eds., The Black Male in America. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, in The Black Sociologist, 9(1):102-103.
1981 Richard J. Gelles. Family Violence. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage; Murray A. Straus, Richard J.
Gelles and Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family. New
York: Anchor; George Thorman, Family Violence. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, in the
Journal of Marriage and the Family 43(2):462-464.
1980 Michael Gordon's The American Family Past, Present, and Future. New York: Random
House, in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies X (4):565-567.
1980 Bernard Murstein, ed., Exploring Intimate Life Styles. New York: Springer, in Alternative
Lifestyles 3(1):125-126.
1980 Carlfred B. Broderick's Marriage and the Family. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall in
the International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 10, (January-June):171-172.
1979 Ernest Porterfield's Black and White Mixed Marriages. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, in the
Journal of Marriage and the Family 41(1):202.
1979 Dawn Day's The Adoption of Black Children: Counteracting Institutional Discrimination
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, in Contemporary Sociology 9 (2):286-287.
OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
2007, 2001, 1997 “White Racism,” Course Syllabus in Donald Cunnigen, ed.,(5th, 4th, and 3rd
editions) Teaching Race and Ethnic Relations: Syllabi and Instructional Materials. Washington,
D.C.: The American Sociological Association.
2005 with Kenneth J. Neubeck as first author. Reprint of a section of chapter 6 from Welfare
Racism, “Welfare Reform as Race Population Control,” pp. 136-144 in Daniel Egan and Levon
Chorbajian, eds., Power: A Critical Reader. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
2004 “Conceptualizing ‘Race’ and Beyond” Association of Black Sociologists Newsletter
February 2004: 4-6.
2002 “On Racism and Racial Oppression.” Response to Stephen Steinberg’s “The Problem with
the Wrong Name,” New Politics Winter 2002:234.
1989 Afterward to Carl Ginsberg's Race and Media: The Enduring Life of the Moynihan Report,
pp. 74-76. New York: Institute for Media Analysis, Inc.
1980 "Blacks and Family Violence: Traditional Supports, Extraordinary Challenges." Urban
Research Review. 6(2):2-3. Institute for Urban Affairs and Research. Washington, D.C.
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OTHER NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
2014 “Understanding Our Many Fergusons: Kill Lines—the Will, the Right, and the Need to
Kill,” Truthout September 29th.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/26484-understanding-our-many-fergusons-kill-lines-the-willthe-right-and-the-need-to-kill
CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, AND UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH:
2011 “The Urban Racial State and Police Repression in New York City under the Giuliani
Administration.” Presented at the Left Forum. Pace University. March 19, New York, N.Y.
2009 “The Civil Rights Movement, the War on Poverty and the Urban Racial State: Conflict
over the Use of Community Action to Support African American Insurgency.” Presented at the
Association of Black Sociologists Meeting. June 19, New Orleans.
2008 “Conceptualizing the Racial State.” Presented at the Association of Black Sociologists
Meeting. July 30, Boston.
2001 with Kenneth J. Neubeck. “Welfare Racism as Race Population Control: The Abolition of
AFDC.” Presented at the Race, Gender and Class Project Second Annual Conference, Southern
University at New Orleans. October 20, New Orleans.
2000 with Kenneth J. Neubeck as presenter “Welfare Racism: A Force in the Rise, Demise, and
Aftermath of AFDC.” Presented at the Work, Welfare and Politics Conference. University of
Oregon. February 28, Portland, OR.
1999 with Darlene Maddern. “White Male Faculty Opposition to a White Racism Course:
Arguments, Power and Curriculum Conflict.” Presented at the Annual National Conference on
Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education. June 7, Memphis.
1998 with Kenneth J. Neubeck as presenter “Welfare Racism: From the Rise to the Demise of
AFDC.” Presented at the Social Science History Association Meeting. November 22, Chicago.
1997 “The Political Origins of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth
Crime (1961-1962).” Presented at the Social Science History Association Meeting. October 17,
Washington, D.C.
1997 with Kenneth J. Neubeck as presenter. “Welfare Racism: Addressing a Conceptual Hiatus.”
Presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting. August 11,Toronto.
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1996 "Elite Competition, Democratic Theory and Community Action: The Mobilization for
Youth Dispute with Lower East Side School Principals." Presented at the Social Science History
Association Meeting. October 11, New Orleans.
1996 “ ‘The Past’ Special Session. Grassroots Community Organizing: Implications for
Sociology.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting. August 19, New York.
1995 "The Ford Foundation, Social Scientists, and the Conceptualization of Community Reform
(1950-1960)." Presented at the Social Science History Association Meeting. November 17,
Chicago.
1995 "Elite Competition, Democratic Theory and Community Action in the Origins of the
Mobilization for Youth Program Precursor to the War on Poverty." Presented at the Association
for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Meeting. November 3,
Cleveland.
1995 "The Impact of Racism on U.S. Welfare Policy." with Kenneth J. Neubeck as presenter.
Presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting. August 19, Washington, D.C.
1995 " 'New Paternalism' Welfare Reform and White Racial Hegemony." with Kenneth J.
Neubeck as presenter. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Meeting. April 1,
Philadelphia.
1992 "Social Science Experts and Community Participation." Presented at the American
Academy for the Advancement of Science Meeting. February 7, Chicago.
1986 "Women, Murder and Male Domination: Police Reports of Domestic Homicide in Chicago
and Philadelphia," with Margaret Zahn as presenter. Presented at the American Society of
Criminology Meeting. October 29-November 1, Atlanta.
1986 "North Central Philadelphia: Socio-Economic Conditions Two Decades After the 1964
North Philadelphia Riot." American Sociological Association Meeting. September 1, New York.
1985 "Race, Class and Gender: An Analysis of Male Work and Family Roles," with George
Leon. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Meeting. March 15, Philadelphia.
1985 "Slicing the Pie: Race, Class and Gender Related Public Policy Beliefs," with George
Leon. Presented at the American Sociological Association Meeting. August, Washington, D.C.
1984 "Sex Differences in the Perception of Black Male-Female Relationships: Communication
Issues and Stereotypes," with Rita Smith. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Meeting.
March, Boston.
1982 "A Woman's Place: The Attitudes of Middle-Class Black Men." Presented at the Second
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Seneca Falls Women's History Conference. July 15-17, Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, N. Y.
1982 " Black Male-Black Female Relationships: The Perceptions of Adult Black Men and
Women," with Rita Smith. Presented at the National Council on Family Relations Meeting.
October, Washington, D.C.
1982 "Black Families in Philadelphia: Challenges of Changing Family Structures." Colloquium
sponsored by Temple University's Institute for Public Policy Studies.
1981 "Elder Abuse and Black Americans: Incidence, Correlates,Treatment and Prevention."
Presented at the National Council on Family Relations Meeting. October, Milwaukee.
1981 "Race, Socio-Economic Status and Age: The Social Context of American Masculinity."
Presented at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Conference on
Gender Roles. September 30-October 2, Bethesda, MD.
1980 "A Preliminary Analysis of Case Studies of Twenty-Five Violent Mental Hospital
Patients." Unpublished manuscript.
1979 "Middle-Income Black Fathers: An Analysis of the Provider Role." Presented at the
Eastern Sociological Society Meeting. March, New York.
1979 “Social Structure and Personal Choice in Intimacy, Marriage and the Family Alternative
Lifestyles Research." Presented at the National Council on Family Relations Meeting. August,
Boston.
1978 "The Effect of Social Network Embeddedness on Black Marital Violence Attitudes and
Behavior: A Search for Potent Support Systems," with Murray A. Straus. Presented at the
American Sociological Association Meeting. September, San Francisco.
1978 "The Effect of Social Network Embeddedness on Black Family Violence Attitudes and
Behavior: A Search for Potent Support Systems," with Murray A. Straus. Presented at the
National Council on Family Relations Meeting. October, Philadelphia.
1978 "Middle-Income Black Fathers: Family Interaction, Transaction and Development."
Presented at the Southern Sociological Society Meeting. March, New Orleans.
1977 Middle-Income Black Fathers: Family Interaction, Transaction, and Development. Ph.D.
Dissertation. Tulane University.
1971 A Re-Evaluation of the "Addiction Prone" Personality Theory of Narcotic Addiction.
M.A. Thesis. University of Michigan.
INVITED LECTURES:
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2000 with Kenneth J. Neubeck as presenter. “Race and U.S. Welfare Policy.” Conversations on
Poverty Lecture Series, The Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law. June 21, New
York.
1991 "Kenneth B. Clark, Adam Clayton Powell, and the Battle over Harlem's Anti-Poverty
Programs." Institute for African-American Studies. The University of Connecticut. October 10,
Storrs, CT.
1985 Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. "Race, Class and Gender: Toward a
Political Economy of American Masculinity." May 24, Wellesley, MA.
1985 Penn State University. Black Studies Program Conference on Black Families. "Black
Male-Female Relationships." November 13, State College, PA.
1984 Tulane University Law School, Center for Legal Studies on Inter-Governmental Relations.
"Elder Abuse; Families and Institutions." May 18, New Orleans.
1983 Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Two presentations based on my
research on black male sex roles and black male-black female relationships. April 7-8,
Wellesley, MA.
1983 Violence Symposium. Temple University Medical School. Office of Continuing Medical
Education. "Socio-Cultural Theories of Violence." November 12, Philadelphia.
1980 Philadelphia State Hospital Conference on Violence. "Sociological Theories of
Violence." Philadelphia State Hospital. March 19, Philadelphia.
1980 Jackson State University. "Black Family Violence: Research Results." November 13,
Jackson, Mississippi.
1980 Howard University. Aging Forum. "Theoretical Observations on Aging Blacks as Family
Violence Controllers, Victims, and Aggressors." March 28, Washington, D.C.
OTHER EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION:
2001 Critic. Author Meets Critics. Charles Mills, The Racial Contract. American Sociological
Association Meeting. August 13, Washington, D.C.
1994 Participant, National Science Foundation Democracy and Science Workshop. July 8-9,
Washington, D.C.
1989 Participant, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers. American Urban History: Cities
and Neighborhoods. Columbia University. June 12-August 4, New York.
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1989 Presentation of Research Proposal Ideas to the National Science Foundation as an MRI
Planning Grant Awardee. March 19, Washington, D.C.
1989 Attended International Conference on the Rhetoric of the Social Sciences. University of
Maryland. March 31-April 1, College Park, MD.
1988 Chaired and Organized Panel on "The Uses and Abuses of Sociology in the Knowledge
Society." Society for the Study of Social Problems Meeting. August 21-24, Atlanta, GA.
1987 Chairperson. Panel on "The Sociology of Knowledge Revisited: Images and Realities of
the Black Underclass." American Sociological Association Meeting. August 17-21,Chicago.
1987 Participant. ASA Teaching Services Program Workshop, "Sociology and Experiential
Community Based Learning." American Sociological Association Meeting. August17-21,
Chicago.
1987 Participant. Highlander Research and Education Center. June 16-19, New Market,
Tennessee.
1987 Organizer and Presenter. "Advocacy Research in Sociology." Part of roundtable discussion
"Engagement and Objectivity in Sociological Analysis," Colloquium at Eastern Sociological
Society Meeting. May 1, Boston.
1987 Discussant. "The Social History of Black Philadelphia: Three Case Studies." Organization
of American Historians. April 5, Philadelphia.
1987 Member. Jessie Bernard Awards Committee, American Sociological Association.
1986 Coordinated with Nancy Kleniewski, Colloquium on Grass-Roots Resistance to
Oppression in Minority Communities. Society for the Study of Social Problems Meeting. August
27, New York.
1986 Discussant. Session I, Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities. American Sociological
Association Meeting. August 28, New York, N.Y.
1985 Organized North Philadelphia Centennial Conference. Temple University. April 25 and 26,
Philadelphia.
1985 Panel on "Black Males and Gender Roles." Society for the Study of Social Problems
Meeting. August 26, Washington, D.C.
1982 Organizer and Presenter. "Black Male-Black Female Relationships." Groves Conference
on Marriage and the Family Meeting. May 31-June 4, Ocean City, Maryland.
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1981 Discussion of Preliminary Results of Research on "Stress Management and Families of the
Frail Elderly," National Conference for Family Violence Researchers. Family Violence Research
Project, University of New Hampshire. July 21-24, Durham, N.H.
1981 Discussant. "Realities for Economic Development," Association for the Study of
Afro-American Life and History Meeting. October 31, Philadelphia.
1981 Roundtable. With Roger Libby. "Towards a Reconceptualization of Sexual Life-Styles."
Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family Meeting. May 27-31, The Poconos, PA.
1981 Consultant for David Weiss' "Open and Multiple Relationships," and Resource Person for
Harriette P. McAdoo and Marie Peter's "Alternative Lifestyles in Minority Ethnic Cultures."
Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family Meeting. May 27-31,The Poconos, PA.
1980 Organizer and Presider. Panel on "The Current Status of Theories of Black Family Life."
National Council on Family Relations Meeting. October, Portland, Oregon.
1980 Participant. ASA Research Skills Development Institute. Institute for Social Science
Research. UCLA. July 7-18, Los Angeles.
1977 Discussant. Lenus Jack's presentation on the "Black Extended Family in New Orleans,"
given at the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists Convention. Atlanta, Georgia.
1969 Intensive Summer Studies Program, Yale University.
CURRENT TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Racism, Political Sociology, Poverty Policy, Urban Sociology, Criminal Justice
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Book Project:
Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
The American Sociological Association
The Association of Black Sociologists
OTHER RECOGNITIONS:
1999 Northeast, The Sunday Magazine of the Hartford Courant, Connecticut Bloomer Award for
“Contribution to the Quality of Life in Our State.”
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