The Death of White Sociology

The Death of White Sociology, edited by Howard University
professor Joyce Ladner, includes excellent essays by writers
such as Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, who take aim at
Euro-American sociological analysis’ “social science fiction”
as well as political scientist Ron Walters’ “Toward a
Definition of Black Social Science” and E. Franklin Frazier’s
unsentimental critique, “The Failure of the Negro
Intellectual.” Ladner comments in a new prologue that
when the book was first released in 1973, it was a hit ”
sparked lively debates on a variety of topics, including:
Does Black Sociology Exist? If so, what are its theoretical
foundations and what is the scope of its application?”