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A classic. Fraternity Gang Rape is a fascinating analysis of how all male groups such as fraternities or athletics teams may create a rape culture where behavior occurs that few individuals acting alone would perpetrate. The new introduction and afterword shed light on how this pernicious problem continues today, insightfully illuminating the complicity of society in the failure of accountability for acquaintance rape.
Mary P. Koss, co-editor of No Safe Haven
"A powerful and important book.
Contemporary Psychology
Full of insights .... an important contribution .... written in accessible prose and ideal for course use.
Women's Review of Books.
Powerfully moving and analytically provocative . . . If the college or university at which AJS readers teach has a fraternity or sorority system, this book will be useful in understanding the way those organizations not only construct the gender relations between women and men on campus but also provide a map of male domination that members can take with them for the rest of their lives.
Michael S. Kimmel, American Journal of Sociology.
Sanday draws a chilling picture of fraternity society, its debasement of women and the way it creates a looking-glass world in which gang rape can be considered normal behavior and the pressure of group-think is powerful.
The Philadelphia Inquirer.
An important book [that] should be read by everyone in higher education-faculty, administrators, and students.
Contemporary Sociology.
"Very accessible . . . Sanday's book explores the vulnerability of college women, and of young men seeking to prove their manhood. I read it on vacation. My daughter has just turned 12. I told her I wanted her to read it before she goes to college.
Judy Mann, The Washington Post
Chilling.
The Miami Herald
"In her well-regarded text, Sanday points out how frequently athletes are involved in group sexual misconduct against women.
The New York Times
Told with boldness and clarity, and drawing on insight from other cultures, this is one of the best books on rape and male socialization in several years.
Feminist Bookstore News
A rare and valuable book: deeply illuminating and yet unbearably painful.
Andrea Dworkin
"Enlightening and provocative.
West Coast Review of Books.
Straight out of today's headlines, this widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and painful detail, how gang rape occurs with regularity in fraternities, athletic dorms, and in other exclusively male enclaves. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs the daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation rituals.
According to the research of Sanday and others the documentation is compellinggang rape occurs widely on our college campuses. Yet, these incidents, during which an often drunk or stoned woman is repeatedly assaulted by a train of fraternity brothers, are rarely prosecuted or even labeled rape, part of an institutional attitude that seeks to protect the university, privileges men and sanctions sexual power and abuse. In this dramatic expose, Sanday explores this darker side of college life with insight, sensitivity, and clarity.
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“Given Bunche’s eventual rise to prominence as a black leader, and the criticism his integrationist politics engendered from black nationalists, it is particularly revealing to read this early work.”
“A timely and penetrating appreciation of Ralph Bunche’s benchmark study of the African American leadership class in the early decades of the last century.”
“Jonathan Holloway has performed a wonderful service in editing and introducing Bunche’s A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership. For scholars and teachers in the field it has long been a source of frustration that this material has not been available. Bunche’s insights and interpretations provide an important perspective on a key moment in the shaping of modern black American politics, and Holloway's introduction very usefully situates Bunche and his analysis in the context of the time.”
“Ralph Bunche’s stature as one of the key African American intellectuals of the twentieth-century continues to grow. Jonathan Holloway has done a great service by bringing Bunche’s unpublished work on leadership to light. Skillfully guiding the reader, Holloway’s introduction and editorial notes provide a perfect balance of information and interpretation, adding much to our understanding of this important and yet often neglected figure.”
“This work is a welcome addition to African American studies as well as to social and cultural history.”
Review
“Given Bunches eventual rise to prominence as a black leader, and the criticism his integrationist politics engendered from black nationalists, it is particularly revealing to read this early work.”
-Booklist,
Review
“A timely and penetrating appreciation of Ralph Bunches benchmark study of the African American leadership class in the early decades of the last century.”
-David Levering Lewis,Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History, NYU
Review
“Jonathan Holloway has performed a wonderful service in editing and introducing Bunches A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership. For scholars and teachers in the field it has long been a source of frustration that this material has not been available. Bunches insights and interpretations provide an important perspective on a key moment in the shaping of modern black American politics, and Holloway's introduction very usefully situates Bunche and his analysis in the context of the time.”
-Adolph Reed,Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line
Review
“Ralph Bunches stature as one of the key African American intellectuals of the twentieth-century continues to grow. Jonathan Holloway has done a great service by bringing Bunches unpublished work on leadership to light. Skillfully guiding the reader, Holloways introduction and editorial notes provide a perfect balance of information and interpretation, adding much to our understanding of this important and yet often neglected figure.”
-Nikhil Pal Singh,author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Review
“This work is a welcome addition to African American studies as well as to social and cultural history.”
-CHOICE,
Synopsis
"Given Bunche's eventual rise to prominence as a black leader, and the criticism his integrationist politics engendered from black nationalists, it is particularly revealing to read this early work."
Booklist"A timely and penetrating appreciation of Ralph Bunche's benchmark study of the African American leadership class in the early decades of the last century."
David Levering Lewis, Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History, NYU
"Jonathan Holloway has performed a wonderful service in editing and introducing Bunche's A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership. For scholars and teachers in the field it has long been a source of frustration that this material has not been available. Bunche's insights and interpretations provide an important perspective on a key moment in the shaping of modern black American politics, and Holloway's introduction very usefully situates Bunche and his analysis in the context of the time."
Adolph Reed, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line
"Ralph Bunche's stature as one of the key African American intellectuals of the twentieth-century continues to grow. Jonathan Holloway has done a great service by bringing Bunche's unpublished work on leadership to light. Skillfully guiding the reader, Holloway's introduction and editorial notes provide a perfect balance of information and interpretation, adding much to our understanding of this important and yet often neglected figure."
Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
"This work is a welcome addition to African American studies as well as to social and cultural history."
CHOICE"Provides key insight into Black leadership at the dawn of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement."Ebony
A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (19031971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the mid-1930s, Bunche played a key role in organizing the National Negro Congress, a popular front-styled group dedicated to progressive politics and labor and civil rights reform.
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership provides key insight into black leadership at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Originally prepared for the Carnegie Foundation study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Bunche's research on the topic was completed in 1940. This never-before-published work now includes an extended scholarly introduction as well as contextual comments throughout by Jonathan Scott Holloway.
Despite the fact that Malcolm X called Bunche a "black man who didn't know his history," Bunche never wavered from his faith that integrationist politics paved the way for racial progress. This new volume forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the civil rights movement.
Synopsis
Given Bunche's eventual rise to prominence as a black leader, and the criticism his integrationist politics engendered from black nationalists, it is particularly revealing to read this early work.--Booklist
A timely and penetrating appreciation of Ralph Bunche's benchmark study of the African American leadership class in the early decades of the last century.
--David Levering Lewis, Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History, NYU
Jonathan Holloway has performed a wonderful service in editing and introducing Bunche's A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership, For scholars and teachers in the field it has long been a source of frustration that this material has not been available. Bunche's insights and interpretations provide an important perspective on a key moment in the shaping of modern black American politics, and Holloway's introduction very usefully situates Bunche and his analysis in the context of the time.
--Adolph Reed, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line
Ralph Bunche's stature as one of the key African American intellectuals of the twentieth-century continues to grow. Jonathan Holloway has done a great service by bringing Bunche's unpublished work on leadership to light. Skillfully guiding the reader, Holloway's introduction and editorial notes provide a perfect balance of information and interpretation, adding much to our understanding of this important and yet often neglected figure.
--Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Thiswork is a welcome addition to African American studies as well as to social and cultural history.
--CHOICEProvides key insight into Black leadership at the dawn of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.--Ebony
A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903-1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the mid-1930s, Bunche played a key role in organizing the National Negro Congress, a popular front-styled group dedicated to progressive politics and labor and civil rights reform.
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership provides key insight into black leadership at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Originally prepared for the Carnegie Foundation study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Bunche's research on the topic was completed in 1940. This never-before-published work now includes an extended scholarly introduction as well as contextual comments throughout by Jonathan Scott Holloway.
Despite the fact that Malcolm X called Bunche a black man who didn't know his history, Bunche never wavered from his faith that integrationist politics paved the way for racial progress. This new volume forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in thecivil rights movement.
Synopsis
A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903—1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the mid-1930s, Bunche played a key role in organizing the National Negro Congress, a popular front-styled group dedicated to progressive politics and labor and civil rights reform.
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership provides key insight into black leadership at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Originally prepared for the Carnegie Foundation study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Bunches research on the topic was completed in 1940. This never-before-published work now includes an extended scholarly introduction as well as contextual comments throughout by Jonathan Scott Holloway.
Despite the fact that Malcolm X called Bunche a “black man who didn't know his history,” Bunche never wavered from his faith that integrationist politics paved the way for racial progress. This new volume forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the civil rights movement.
About the Author
Jonathan Scott Holloway is associate professor of African American studies, history, and American studies at Yale University. He is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919—1941. He lives in New Haven, CT.