Death of White Sociology
Edited by Howard University professor Joyce Ladner,The  Death of White Sociologyoffers brilliant descriptions of black  identity with excellent essays from writers like Ralph Ellison and  Albert Murray, who take aim at the "social science fiction" of  Euro-American sociological analysis, as well as political scientist  Ron Walters's "Toward a Definition of Black Social Science" and  E. Franklin Frazier's unsentimental critique, "The Failure of the  Negro Intellectual." In a new foreword, Ladner notes that when the  anthology was originally published in 1973, it "provoked healthy  debates over a range of issues: Does Black sociology exist? If so,  what are its theoretical assumptions, and what is the range of subject  matter it covers?" The writers gathered within these pages provide  diverse answers to those questions, examining--and  refuting--Eurocentric distortions of what and who black people  are.--Eugene Holley Jr.