2020 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:
2018 Noel A. Cazenave, Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism (New York: Routledge).
2016 Noel A. Cazenave, Conceptualizing Racism: Breaking the Chains of Racially Accommodative Language. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
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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 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:
2017 Noel A. Cazenave, “Institutional Racism,” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 1-2.
2017 Noel A. Cazenave, “Joe R. Feagin: The Social Science Voice of Systemic Racism Theory” pp.17-40 in Ruth Thompson-Miller and Kimberley Ducey, eds., Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2017).
2014 Noel A. Cazenave, “Teaching about Systemic White Racism,” pp. 249-256 of Kristin NOEL A. CAZENAVE 3
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.
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.
1999 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 Male- Female 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. NOEL A. CAZENAVE 4
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.
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.
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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 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. NOEL A. CAZENAVE 6
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.
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 NOEL A. CAZENAVE 7
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.
OTHER NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
2018 “Making Black Lives Matter,” Racism Review, March 24th. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2018/03/24/making-black-lives-matter/
2015 “‘Illiberal’: The White Backlash Word,” Racism Review, November 15th. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2015/11/15/illiberal-the-white-backlash-word/
2015 “The Page 99 Test, Noel A. Cazenave’s ‘Conceptualizing Racism,’” November 13th. http://page99test.blogspot.com/2015/11/noel-cazenaves-conceptualizing-racism.html
2015 “‘Black Lives Matter’ versus ‘All Lives Matter’”: Latest Racial Battle over Language,” Racism Review, September 15th. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2015/09/15/black-lives- matter-versus-all-lives-matter-latest-racial-battle-over-language/
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-will-the-right-and-the-need-to-kill
CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, AND UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH:
2017 Chair, “State Violence and Incarceration” panel,” Contested Citizenship Conference, American Studies Program, The University of Connecticut. March 31, Storrs, CT.
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.
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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.
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.
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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 Association 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 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 NOEL A. CAZENAVE 10
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:
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. NOEL A. CAZENAVE 11
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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:
Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring
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.”
Who's Who among Black Americans