Writings

AFRICAN AMERICAN FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES: THE LEGACY AND VISIONS EDITED BY TAMARA L. BROWN, GREGORY S. PARKS, AND CLARENDA M. PHILLIPS UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY, 2005

  1. Pledged to Remember: Africa in the Life and Lore of Black Greek-Letter Organizations
  2. The Origin and Evolution of College Fraternities and Sororities
  3. Black Fraternal and Benevolent Societies in Nineteenth-Century America
  4. The Grand Boule' at the Dawn of a New Century: Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
  5. Education, Racial Uplift, and the Rise of the Greek-Letter Tradition: The African American Quest for Status in the Early History of the Divine Nine
  6. In the Beginning: The Early History of the Divine Nine
  7. Lobbying Congress for Civil Rights: The American Council on Human Rights, 1948-1963
  8. Sister Acts:Resistance in Sweetheart and Little Sister Programs
  9. The Body Art of Brotherhood
  10. Calls: An Inquiry into Their Origin, Meaning, and Function
  11. Variegated Roots: The Foundations of Stepping
  12. Sisterly Bonds: African American Sororities Rising to Overcome Obstacles
  13. Racism, Sexism, and Aggression: A Study of Black and White Fraternities
  14. How Black Greek-Letter Organization Membership Affects College Adjustment and Undergraduate Outcomes
  15. The Empty Space of African American Society Represtation: Spike Lee's School Daze
  16. "In The Fell Clutch of Circumstance": Pledging and the Black Greek Experience

CRITICAL RACE REALISM: INTERSECTIONS OF PYSCHOLOGY, RACE, & LAW
EDITED BY GREGORY S. PARKS, SHAYNE JONES, AND JONATHAN CARDI
FOREWARD BY RICHARD DELGADO
THE NEW PRESS, 200

  1. Towards a Critical Race Realism
  2. Stereotypes and Prejudice: Helping Legal Decisionmakers Break the Prejudice Habit
  3. Implicit Racial Attitudes of Death Penalty Lawyers
  4. Advocacy Against Stereotype: Lessons from Cognitive Social Psychology
  5. Individual and Intergroup Processes to Address Racial Discrimination in Lawyering Relationships
  6. Race and Juries: An experimental Psychology Perspective
  7. African-Americans on the Witness Stand: Race and Expert Witness Testimony
  8. Does Race Matter?: Exploring the Cross-race Effect in Eyewitness Identification
  9. The Search for Racial Justice in Tort Law
  10. Trojan Horses of Race
  11. Affirmative Action: Images and Realities
  12. Behavioral Realism in Employement Discrimination Law: Implicit Bias and Disparate Treatment
  13. African-American Families Facing Parental Rights Termination Proceedings
  14. The Law of Implicit Bias
  15. Psychology, Crime, Law, and Justice: Contributions from Radical Criminology
  16. The Psychology of Hate Crime Law, Victims and Offenders
  17. Prejudice in Police Profiling: Assessing an Overlooked Aspect of Prior Research
  18. The Influence of Criminal Defendants' Afrocentric Features on their Sentences
  19. Fear and Fairness in the City: Criminal Enforcement and Perceptions of Fairness in Minority Communities

BLACK GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATIONSIN THE 21ST CENTURY: OUR FIGHT HAS JUST BEGAN
EDITED BY GREGORY S. PARKS
FOREWARD BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX
AFTERWORD BY MARC MORIAL
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY, 2008

Introduction: Toward a Critical Scholarship

  1. The First and the Finest: The Founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
  2. The Vision of Virtuous Women: The Twenty Pearls of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s
  3. The Last Shall Be First: The Founders of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
  4. Women of Vision, Catalysts for Change: The Founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
  5. Constitutionally Bound: The Founders of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
  6. The Pride of All Our Hearts: The Founders of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
  7. Seven Schoolteachers Challenge the Klan and Establish Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority
  8. A Narrative Critique of Black Greek Letter Organizations and Social Action
  9. Black Feminist Thought in Black Sororities
  10. Giving and Getting: Philanthropic Activity among Black Greek-Letter Organizations
  11. Strategic Essentialism and Black Greek Identity in the Postmodern Era
  12. “I’ve Got All My Sisters with Me?”: Black Women’s Organizations in the 21st Century
  13. Sisterhood Beyond the Ivory Tower: Exploring Black Sorority Alumnae Membership
  14. Exploring Black Greek-Letter Organizations through a Positive Organizing Lens
  15. Not on My Line: Examining Attitudes about Homosexuality in Black Fraternities
  16. “I Did It For The Brotherhood”: Nonblack Members in Black Greek-Letter Organizations
  17. Eating Disorders within Black Sororities
  18. Modern Fraternities, Ancient Origins
  19. “‘Cuz I’m Young and I’m Black and My Hat’s Real Low?”: A Postmodern Critique of Black Greeks as “Educated Gangs”
  20. Black and White “Greeks”: A Call for Collaboration
  21. Advising Black Greek Letter Organizations: A Student Development Approach

BROTHERS AND SISTERS: DIVERSITY IN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES
EDITED BY CRAIG L. TORBENSON AND GREGORY S. PARKS
FOREWARD BY EDWARD G. WHIPPLE
FAIRLIEGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008

  1. From the Beginning: A History of College Fraternities an Sororities
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  2. Legacies, and Letters: A Cultural History of Black Greek-letter Organizations
  3. Asian Americans in Sororities and Fraternities: In Search of a Home and Place
  4. Nuestra Historia y Futuro (Our History and Future): Latino(a) Greek Fraternities and Sororities
  5. Preserving and Creating Traditions: A Native American Emergence in Greek Organizations
  6. Multicutural Fraternities and Sororities: A Hodgepodge of Transient Multiethnic Groups
  7. Challenging the Heterosexual Model of Brotherhood: The Gay Fraternity's Dilemma
  8. Praising God and Maintaining Tradition: Religious Diversity within Fraternities and Sororities
  9. Rushing the Wall, Crossing the Sands: Cross-Racial Membership in American College Fraternities & Sororities