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| Brothers and Sisters: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities |
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Editor - Craig L. Torbenson and Gregory S. Parks
Publication Date - May 2009
Number of Pages - 320
ISBN #9780838641941
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| The 1950s are arguably the watershed era in the civil rights movementwith the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Educationin 1954, the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and the desegregation ofLittle Rock (Arkansas) High School in 1957. It was during this period -1955 to be exact - that sociologist Alfred M. Lee published his seminalwork "Fraternities without Brotherhood: A Study of Prejudice on theAmerican Campus". Lee's book was the first and last book to explorediversity within college fraternal groups. More than fifty years later,Craig L. Torbenson and Gregory S. Parks revisit this issue more broadlyin their edited volume "Brothers and Sisters: Diversity in CollegeFraternities and Sororities". This volume draws from a variety ofdisciplines in an attempt to provide a holistic analysis of diversitywithin collegiate fraternal life. It also brings a wide range ofscholarly approaches to the inquiry of diversity within collegefraternities and sororities. It explores not only from whence thesegroups have come but where they are currently situated and what issuesarise as they progress.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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Craig L. Torbenson is a professor of geography in the history department at Wichita State University.
Gregory S. Parks is an independent scholar. |
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| Scholarly Reviews |
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Christine Girouard - Essentials - July 2009
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