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JOYCE LADNER:The Odyssey of an ‘Ambivalent Sociologist New Directions Volume 11 | Issue 2 Article 4 1-1-1984 JOYCE LADNER:The dO yssey of an ‘Ambivalent Sociologist Harriet Jackson Scarupa Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/newdirections Recommended Citation Scarupa, Harriet Jackson (1984) "JOYCE LADNER:The dysO sey of an ‘Ambivalent Sociologist," New Directions: Vol. 11: Iss. 2, Article 4. Available at: http://dh.howard.edu/newdirections/vol11/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Directions by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Scarupa: JOYCE LADNER:The Odyssey of an ‘Ambivalent Sociologist PHOTOGRAPHY BY KAY HARKLESS 10 i i • Mjk Lm The Odyssey o f an ‘Am bivalent NEW DIRECTIONS JANUARY 1984 Published by Digital Howard @ Howard University, 1 New Directions, Vol. 11 [], Iss. 2, Art. 4 By Harriet Jackson Scarupa Joyce Ladner knows what it means to Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, 11 undertake a painful odyssey. Like Merid­ Cummins Engine Foundation). n a room in Howard University’s ian Hill, Joyce Ladner has followed her Consider, finally, her reputation as a School of Social Work, doctoral stu­ own inner voices, voices that have led her scholar. “Dr. Ladner is one of the major dents are nearing the close of a lively to sociology. theoreticians in sociology in the country,” discussion of Meridian, Alice Walk­ When you watch Ladner in action in says Jay Chunn, dean of Howard Univer­ Ier’s powerful novel about the odyssey of a class — whether she’s methodically sity’s School of Social Work. “Her writings civil rights worker. covering some sociological topic or remi­ and research are of the highest quality. The exchange of ideas takes place in a niscing in a more down-home manner She has taken a positive and devel­ seminar called “The Individual” which is about her own background—the image is opmental approach to sociology as it re­ designed to help social workers develop one of a woman totally at ease in her lates to Black people. By that I mean she the theoretical and practical knowledge lifework. When you look at her long cur­ looks at Black individuals and Black they will need to work with troubled indi­ riculum vitae and note her contributions to families from the standpoint of stress, cop­ viduals. This means students analyze the field, this impression is reinforced. ing styles, how they operate and function. Meridian far less as a work of art than as Consider her books: Tomorrow’s To­ She looks for positive aspects of Black an especially imaginative case study of morrow: The Black Woman (Doubleday, development rather than just concentrat­ how one person tries to resolve problems. 1971), her study of Black teenage girls in a ing on deviance and pathology.” Leading the seminar are two members St. Louis public housing project; The Says Lee Rainwater, a prominent Har­ of the school’s interdisciplinary faculty: Death of White Sociology (Random vard University sociologist who super­ Joyce Ladner (Ph.D., sociology) and House, 1973), her collection of essays vised Ladner’s research on teenage girls Dorothy Pearson (Ph.D., social welfare.) calling for a new perspective in the social in St. Louis when he was on the faculty of Ladner has been in charge of the dis­ sciences; Mixed Families: Adopting Washington University: “It’s very easy for cussions on Meridian and now it is time Across Racial Boundaries (Doubleday, a sociologist to deal with large issues but for her to pull together some of the book’s 1977), her study of white couples who in a kind of very abstract and general kind themes. She leans forward intently, have adopted Black children; Notes on of way. It seems to me that what she [Lad­ glances down at her notes and speaks of the Changing South, her work-in­ ner] has done — both in St. Louis and in the novel’s complex protagonist, Meridian progress about the impact of the civil the adoption study — is to take an issue Hill, a former civil rights worker who re­ rights movement on individuals and in­ that is significant and shed light on it by turns to the South to carry on the work of stitutions. actually going to people and finding out the movement and to seek her own psy- Consider her many articles in profes­ something about their experiences. chological/spiritual peace: sional journals, popular magazines and That’s what makes a good sociologist.” “What we see is an individual who is newspapers, articles with such titles as Ladner is also credited with “demystify­ attempting to find and shape an identity. “The Legacy of Black Womanhood,” ing sociology” by demonstrating that Her struggle has to do with who she is, “What ‘Black Power’ Means to Negroes in scholarly insights need not be couched in how to cope on a day-to-day basis. Mississippi,” “Tanzanian Women and Na­ near-indecipherable jargon to be valid. As Walker does not resolve Meridian’s di­ tion Building,” “The Black Middle Class Chunn says, “Certainly she has been a lemmas for her completely; she asks us to Defined,” “The South: Old-New Land,” leader in being able to communicate to empathize with Meridian as Meridian “Women in Poverty: Its Roots and Effects,” the lay public developments in her re­ goes on a painful odyssey, an odyssey “Labeling Black Children: Social- search and in the social sciences in gen­ which enables us to explore our own at­ Psychological Implications.” eral.” titudes and beliefs. Consider her work as a teacher (South­ All of this — Ladner’s reputation, “All of this is cast within one of the most ern Illinois University, 1968-69), Hunter achievements and the seeming ease she energetic periods of our history, the civil College (1973-81), Howard University displays as she pursues her work as rights movement. The core of the book (1971-73 and 1981 to the present), her in­ researcher-writer-teacher— is not without has to do with the ability of a person to volvement in numerous learned societies irony. For Ladner admits that she has al­ grow, to develop, to follow one’s inner (e.g., American Sociological Society, So­ ways been an “ambivalent sociologist.” voices. It shows the capacity of the ciety for the Study of Social Problems, As­ The reason for her attraction to the field human spirit to be transformed.” sociation of Black Sociologists, Associa­ in the first place was simple enough. “I Like Meridian Hill, Joyce Ladner is a tion of Humanist Sociologists); the papers wanted to be a sociologist because I was daughter of the South. Like Meridian Hill, she has presented at professional meet­ interested in understanding how people Joyce Ladner is a walking legacy of the ings (24 since 1976); the grants her re­ relate to each other,” she says. “I’ve al­ civil rights movement. Like Meridian Hill, search has attracted (e.g., from the Ford ways been very curious about people. NEW DIRECTIONS JANUARY 1984 http://dh.howard.edu/newdirections/vol11/iss2/4 2 Scarupa: JOYCE LADNER:The Odyssey of an ‘Ambivalent Sociologist When I walk down the street, I’m the type movement or the anti-war movement and I person but she certainly wasn’t dominant. who’ll stop and look at everybody felt that sociologists should be architects She deferred to my stepfather, always. Yet around.” of change. If sociologists were really where were the descriptions of such But once she actually became formally studying people and their environments I families in the books I read in graduate immersed in the field, things didn’t seem believed their place was to be involved in school?” all that simple. That’s when ambivalence an activist way. So, in a sense, I felt bet­ Coping with these questions, con­ hit her like a sledgehammer. As she rayed. tradictions and conflicts caused “Joyce speaks of the reasons for this ambiva­ The way so many mainstream sociolo­ Ladner, Ph.D., sociology” to be a very lence, her voice loses its easygoing ca­ gists tended to treat the Black experience angry young woman for a time. Tomor­ dences, seeming to reflect her passage (when they weren’t ignoring it completely) row's Tomorrow and The Death of White on an intellectual odyssey as painful, in its also fed her rebellion and ambivalence: Sociology could be seen as her attempts own way, as that of Meridian Hill. to harness that anger and use it creatively. “I went to graduate school [Washington Tomorrow’s Tomorrow evolved from her “... University] just out of college [Tougaloo m ainstream doctoral dissertation. On one level it is an College in Tougaloo, Miss.] where I’d sociology was very examination of what approaching wom­ been deeply involved in the civil rights anhood meant to some 100 poor Black movement and for the entire time I was in biased in terms o f girls growing up in the notorious Pruitt- graduate school I had a lot of guilt and Igoe housing project in St. Louis. She conflict,” she recalls. “I felt I had no right to social class, in terms o f spent almost four years interviewing, test­ be in the security and confines of ing, observing and, in general, hanging graduate school in St. Louis while my sis­ ra ce ...” out with these girls, once even panhan­ ter, Dorie, and all my friends were back in dling with a few to come up with the bus Mississippi and Alabama dodging bullets “I felt mainstream sociology was very fare to go to a dance hall and then accept­ and carrying on the work I had been in­ biased in terms of social class, in terms of ing the teen boys’ invitations to dance — volved in.
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