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Looks at the history of the oldest African American-Greek letter sorority, founded on the campus of Howard University

• Fraternities and sororities as a student movement / Pietro A. Sasso, Roger "Mitch" Nasser Jr., Bilal Badruddin, and Fran Becque
• History of Asian American Greek-letter organizations / Bryan Dosono, Bilal Badruddin, and Vigor W. H. Lam
• NALFO: a retrospective y hacia adelante / Mónica Lee Miranda, Keith D. Garcia, and Juan R. Guardia
• From halls to house: the proliferation of fraternity housing / Pietro A. Sasso and Thea Zunick
• Protected speech or illegal behavior: fraternity activities in a world of campus insecurity / Dennis E. Gregory
• Fraternal law / Mitch Kamrass
• Hazing in fraternities and sororities / Jenny Nirh
• The position of fraternity and sorority values in college student development / Ashley Tull, Justine Grace, and Colin Nelson-Pinkston
• Membership and values: dissonance and opportunities / Denise L. Davidson and Mark Bauman
• Looking inward: meaning making, spirituality, and the fraternal experience / Robert Jason Lynch
• Cultivating cultures of inclusion: a leadership development approach / Leonard Taylor Jr. and Shirdonna Lawrence
• The divine nine in contemporary higher education: a critical race perspective / Shanna E. Smith and Dorian L. McCoy
• Race and privilege in fraternity and sorority life: considerations for practice and research / Crystal E. Garcia and Zachary E. Shirley
• The state of fraternity/sorority research / James P. Barber, J. Patrick Biddix, Grahaeme A. Hesp, Eric Norman, and Daniel A. Bureau
• Development and use of the fraternity and sorority experience survey / Cynthia A. Cogswell, Kevin Fosnacht, Dawn M. Maynen, Steven Veldkamp, and Gary R. Pike
• Contributing to learning and development? Exploring the impact of fraternity and sorority membership / Georgianna L Martin, Brian Garsh, and Michael S. Hevel

Foundations, Research, and Assessment of Fraternities and Sororities is inspired by continuing conversations about the enduring challenges facing fraternities and sororities on campuses across the country. The co-editors curate contributions from scholars and noteworthy practitioners from across higher education to examine a variety of issues relating to the past and future construct of these institutions. The text begins with a historical section that provides a perspective on the origins of fraternities and sororities. Other sections look at such critical areas as values, legal issues, and research. Values are described regarding the values congruence movement and acknowledging emerging areas of the individual fraternity and sorority experience. Legal issues include freedom of speech, hazing law, and risk management. Additional profiles of large, national benchmark surveys are included, and the book concludes with a final overview of the state of fraternity/sorority scholarship. This volume will appeal to a broad readership made up of faculty, administrations and alumni/ae.
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"Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As national women's organizations, sororities have long held power on college campuses and in American life. Yet the groups also have always been conservative in nature and inherently discriminatory, selecting new members on the basis of social class, religion, race, or physical attractiveness. In the early twentieth century, sororities filled a niche on campuses as they purported to prepare college women for "ladyhood." Sorority training led members to comport themselves as hyperfeminine, heterosocially inclined, traditionally minded women following a model largely premised on the mythical image of the southern lady. Although many sororities were founded at non-southern schools and also maintained membership strongholds in many non-southern states, the groups adhered to a decidedly southern aesthetic-a modernized version of Lost Cause ideology-in their social training to deploy a conservative agenda. Margaret L. Freeman researched sorority archives, sorority-related materials in student organizations, as well as dean of women's, student affairs, and president's office records collections for historical data that show how white southerners repeatedly called upon the image of the southern lady to support southern racial hierarchies. Her research also demonstrates how this image could be easily exported for similar uses in other areas of the United States that shared white southerners' concerns over changing social demographics and racial discord. By revealing national sororities as significant players in the grassroots conservative movement of the twentieth century, Freeman illuminates the history of contemporary sororities' difficult campus relationships and their continuing legacy of discriminatory behavior and conservative rhetoric"-- Provided by publisher

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• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• List of Referenced Sororities and Fraternities
• Introduction Where Y'all Does Not Mean All
• CHAPTER ONE ""A Very Wholesome Discipline"" From Girlhood to Ladyhood in the Southern Sorority Chapter
• CHAPTER TWO ""A Laboratory in How to Get Along with People"" Selling Sororities through Social Education
• CHAPTER THREE Southern Belles and Sororit yGirls Sororities and the Lure of the Southern Aesthetic

• CHAPTER FOUR Standardizing Sexu ality Heterosocializing and Sexual Danger in Sorority Life
• CHAPTER FIVE ""The Chosen Are Happy, the Rest Are Crushe d"" Using Rush to Define the Membership
• CHAPTER SIX ""To Discriminate Is a Positive Trait"" The NPC, ""Freedom of Association, "" and the Modern Conservative Movement
• CHAPTER SEVEN ""Inequality for All and Mint Juleps, Too"" Reinforcing the Sorority Woman as Southern Lady
• CONCLUSION An Alpha Phi-asco and Other Peculiar Institutions
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• Bibliography
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"Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As national women's organizations, sororities have long held power on college campuses and in American life. Yet the groups also have always been conservative in nature and inherently discriminatory, selecting new members on the basis of social class, religion, race, or physical attractiveness. In the early twentieth century, sororities filled a niche on campuses as they purported to prepare college women for "ladyhood." Sorority training led members to comport themselves as hyperfeminine, heterosocially inclined, traditionally minded women following a model largely premised on the mythical image of the southern lady. Although many sororities were founded at non-southern schools and also maintained membership strongholds in many non-southern states, the groups adhered to a decidedly southern aesthetic-a modernized version of Lost Cause ideology-in their social training to deploy a conservative agenda. Margaret L. Freeman researched sorority archives, sorority-related materials in student organizations, as well as dean of women's, student affairs, and president's office records collections for historical data that show how white southerners repeatedly called upon the image of the southern lady to support southern racial hierarchies. Her research also demonstrates how this image could be easily exported for similar uses in other areas of the United States that shared white southerners' concerns over changing social demographics and racial discord. By revealing national sororities as significant players in the grassroots conservative movement of the twentieth century, Freeman illuminates the history of contemporary sororities' difficult campus relationships and their continuing legacy of discriminatory behavior and conservative rhetoric"-- Provided by publisher.

• Dedication Preface Pietro A. Sasso, Joseph L. DeVitis, J. Patrick Biddix, and Monica Lee Miranda Foreword: Looking Back Dennis E. Gregory Part One: Challenges
• 1. New Member Education Brian Joyce
• 2. Fraternity and Sorority Liability and Risk Management Gregory S. Parks and Sarah J. Spangenburg
• 3. Mental and Emotional Health Among Fraternity and Sorority Members: Understanding the Present, Enhancing the Future Monica G. Burke and Aaron W. Hughey
• 4. Substance Abuse Among Fraternity and Sorority Members: Causes, Consequences and Countermeasures Aaron W. Hughey Part Two: Chapter Advising
• 5. Advising Local Fraternal Organizations Wendi Kinney and Allison Swick-Duttine
• 6. The Role of the Campus Professional Kelly Jo Karnes Hendricks and Carolyn E. Whittier, PhD
• 7. The Impact of Short-Term Visits: Consultant Perceptions on Organizational Development Jamie Workman and Gary Ballinger
• 8. (Re)Establishing a Fraternal Community Eric M. Norman and J. Patrick Biddix Part Three: Programming Issues
• 9. Issues and Challenges: Leadership Development Sarah Schoper, Todd Rotgers, and Kristen Wagner
• 10. Service, Philanthropy, and the Fraternity and Sorority Experience Sally Gates Parish and Zach Carr
• 11. Making the Grade: Fraternity and Sorority Standards Programs Daniel A. Bureau and James P. Barber Part Four: Diversity & Inclusion
• 12. Embracing the Rainbow: Addressing Gender and Sexual Diversity (GSD) Issues Among Fraternity and Sorority Membership Gary Ballinger, Jessica Ward, and Nathan Wehr
• 13. Gender Performativity in College Social Fraternities and Sororities Adam McCready and Scott Radimer
• 14. Social Belonging for Students of Color in White Greek-Letter Organizations Monica Galloway Burke and Alex Kennedy Part Five: National Organizations
• 15. Latino/a Fraternities and Sororities: Historia y familia Monica Lee Miranda, Cristobal Salinas Jr., and Manuel Del Real
• 16. Reclaiming and Asserting our Nations through the Growth of Historically Native American Fraternities and Sororities (HNAFS) Robin "Zape-tah-hol-ah" Minthorn and Natalie Youngbull
• 17. The North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) Gresham D. Collum
• 18. The National Panhellenic Conference Cynthia Weston
• 19. National Multicultural Greek Council Tevis Bryant
• 20. National Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Panhellenic Association (NAPA) Brian Gee, Hannah Seoh, and Bryan Dosono
• 21. The Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Kara Miller and Lynda Wiley
• 22. Through the Years: A Reflective Look at the Evolution of NPHC Jennifer Jones and Stacey Jones Contributors.
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Supporting Fraternities and Sororities in the Contemporary Era is inspired by sustained and reoccurring professional conversations and scholarship that have suggested that not just change is necessary, but that there ought to be a fundamental shift towards reconceptualizing the construct of fraternities and sororities. The co-editors curate work from scholars and noteworthy practitioners from across higher education to provide an imperative text that reflects the complexity and expansiveness by addressing diversity, programming, and support approaches. This text commences with the understanding that issues will continuously exist, requiring a greater nuanced depth of appreciation to reduce their negative impact. It also summarizes national organizations from authentic, represented voices. Chapters then focus on solutions to support the fraternity and sorority experience, providing strategies and emerging explanations for the issues described in this text. Supporting Fraternities and Sororities seeks to do exactly as the title implies: to inform all stakeholders so that they can make better decisions about the future of these institutions.
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• Introduction: "Why Would You Do That?": Non-Black Members of Black Fraternities and Sororities
• Chapter One: Brotherhood and Sisterhood: What Are Black Greek-Letter Organizations?
• Chapter Two: "I'm Not Trying to Be You": Identity and Boundary Work
• Chapter Three: On the Yard: Race on the College Campus
• Chapter Four: Branded for Life: The Impact of Membership
• Chapter Five (Conclusion): "I'm Not the First, and I Won't Be the Last": Crossing the Line, Connecting the Past and Present
• Methodological Appendix
• Glossary.
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Starting in the early twentieth century and still thriving in the contemporary era, Black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs) provide social support, networking opportunities, and service for the Black community. Although BGLOs have always been majority-Black organizations, there are small numbers of non-Black individuals who choose to pledge their membership. Diversity in Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Breaking the Line explores the experiences of these non-Black members who have immersed themselves in organizations rich with Black history and culture. Through in-depth interviews with thirty-four such members, Wendy Marie Laybourn and Devon R. Goss reveal how and why these individuals come to identify with organizations designed for the uplift of races other than their own. For non-Black BGLO members, the association with a Black organization provides them the opportunity to consider the meaning of racial inequality and their own racial identities. Although many non-Black BGLO members recount challenges to their membership, the participants in Diversity in Black Greek-Letter Organizations ultimately find a sense of belonging with their Black brothers and sisters, which Laybourn and Goss argue can provide an example of the challenges and promises of cross-racial interactions as a whole.
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• Part one. Vice
• Drinking games
• Broken pledges
• Sexual assault expected
• The SAE law
• Part two. Legacy
• Sing, brothers, sing
• Discriminating gentlement
• Old Row
• Part three. Rebirth
• the phoenix
• The lions
• Conclusion.

"College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide. While SAE enrollment is still strong, it has been pilloried for what John Hechinger calls "the unholy trinity of fraternity life": racism, deadly drinking, and misogyny. Hazing rituals have killed ten undergraduates in its chapters since 2005, and, in 2015, a video of a racist chant breaking out among its Oklahoma University members went viral. That same year, SAE was singled out by a documentary on campus rape, The Hunting Ground. Yet despite these problems and others, SAE remains a large institution with strong ties to Wall Street and significant political reach. In True Gentlemen, Hechinger embarks on a deep investigation of SAE and fraternity culture generally, exposing the vast gulf between its founding ideals and the realities of its impact on colleges and the world at large. He shows how national fraternities are reacting to a slowly dawning new reality, and asks what the rest of us should do about it. Should we ban them outright, or will they only be driven underground? Can an institution this broken be saved? With rare access and skillful storytelling, Hechinger draws a fascinating and necessary portrait of an institution in deep need of reform, and makes a case for how it can happen"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface to the Second Edition: Black Haze Revisited; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter One: Hazing Then and Now; Concern, Change, and Questions; The Influence of the Ancient and Modern Worlds on Black Greek Violence; Falsehoods and Failure: The Epistemic Domino Effect and Ethics in Greekdom; Chapter Two: Men, Media, and Movements; Habermas, the Public Sphere, and a Critical Approach to the Media; Problems with Habermas; BGFs, Social Movements, and Identity; The Politics of Personal Involvement: Gazing through Fraternity Men's Eyes.

• Chapter Three: The History of Black Greek-Letter FraternitiesAmerican Greek-Letter Fraternalism; Black Entrance into American College Life; The Exclusion of Blacks from White Greek Life; The Founding of Black Greek-letter Fraternities; Alpha Phi Alpha; Kappa Alpha Psi; Omega Psi Phi; Phi Beta Sigma; Iota Phi Theta; BGF's Political Involvement; The Depoliticization of BGFs; Chapter Four: The Pledge Process as Sacrifice; Violence Vehicles: Rituals as Social Stabilizers; The Commonalities of Modern Fraternity Ritual; Hazing and the Symbolic Journey.

• The Lure of Liminality: The Ritualistic Remaking of the SelfChapter Five: The Hegemonic Struggle and Domination in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities; Violence, Power, Hegemony, and Domination; Educated Gangs? To Pledge or Not to Pledge; Conservatism and Domination; BGF Ruling Blocs and the Membership Intake Epidemic; Chapter Six: Acceptance, Freedom, and Identity Construction In Black Greek-Letter Fraternities; Formations of the Black Male Self; Economic Anxiety; Black Identity Fragmentation; The Self, Selves, and the Victory of Consent; Akrasia and Choice; Substitution of the Fraternal Self.

• Chapter Seven: Beyond the Fraternal SelfAfterword: Reflections On Failure; For Reputation and Revenue: The Champion and Sandusky Failures; The Organizational Bottom Line; The If Indictment; Acknowledgments; Appendix; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Notes; Bibliography; Books; Book chapters, reports, and scholarly journal, Magazine, and newspaper articles; Index.

Are black men naturally violent? Do they define manhood in the same way as their counterparts across lines of race? Are black Greek-letter fraternities among the most dangerous student organizations on American college and university campuses? Can their often-dangerous initiation processes be stopped or even modified and, if not, what should be done about them? In this second edition of Black Haze, Ricky L. Jones takes on these questions and more. The first edition was an enlightening and sometimes disturbing examination of American men's quest for acceptance, comfort, reaffirmation, and manhood in a world where their footing is often unstable. In this new edition Jones not only provides masterful philosophical and ethical analyses but he also forces the engagement ofa terrifying real world process that damages and kills students with all too frequent regularity. With a revealing new preface and stunning afterword, Jones immerses the reader in an intriguing and dark world marked by hypermasculinity, unapologetic brutality, and sometimes death. He offers a compelling book that ranges well beyond the subject of hazing - one that yields perplexing questions and demands difficult choices as we move foreword in addressing issues surrounding fraternities, violent hazing, black men, and American society. -- from back cover.

The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. Black Greek letter organizations were also created to foster a sense of community among African American students on college campuses, and among their ranks are legendary artists, politicians, theologians, inventors, intellectuals, educators, civil rights leaders, and athletes. Nikki Giovanni, Cornell West, Martin Luther King Jr., Shaquille O'Neal, Toni Morrison, Bill Cosby, and W.E.B. DuBois were all members of black fraternities and sororities, and these groups continue to have a strong presence on campuses today. Offering a comprehensive overview of the historical, cultural, political, and social circumstances that propelled the creation of these groups, this collection of original essays references the profound contributions that black Greek letter organizations and their members have made to American history. The contributors also examine current black Greek life and culture, addressing issues such as hazing and branding that are, perhaps unfairly, often at the forefront of discussions about these organizations. African American Fraternities and Sororities is the authoritative history of these influential and sometimes controversial organizations.
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The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence that endures on today's campuses, African American fraternities and sororities claim legendary artists, politicians, theologians, inventors, intellectuals, educators, civil rights leaders, and athletes in their ranks. In this second edition of African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, editors Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, and Clarenda M. Phillips have added new chapters that address issues such as the role of Christian values in black Greek-letter organisations and the persistence of hazing. Offering an overview of the historical, cultural, political, and social circumstances that have shaped these groups, African American Fraternities and Sororities explores the profound contributions that black Greek-letter organisations and their members have made to America. New in the second edition: * Examination of the relationship between Christian values and organisational identity * Investigation of hazing rituals * Survey of academic performance in black Greek-letter organisations * Discourse on notions of masculinity in black Greek-letter organisations * Accounts of the professional lives of black Greek luminaries .
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• W.W. Denton (1915-1917)
• Frank E. Thompson (1917-1919)
• William C. Bagley (1919-1924)
• Thomas Cooke McCracken (1924-1948)
• William McKinley Robinson (1948-1950)
• Frank Lee Wright (1950-1953)
• Katherine Vickery (1953-1958)
• John J. Harton (1942-1964)
• Gerald H. Read (1964-1966)
• Esther J. McKune (1966-1968)
• Wippert Arnot Stumpf (1968-1970)
• Lorrene Love Ort (1970-1972)
• Frank E. Marsh, Jr. (1970-1972)
• A. Keith Turkett (1974-1976)
• Clementine Skinner (1976-1978)
• Richard Louis Judd (1978-1980)
• O.L. Davis, Jr. (1980-1982)
• Jerry H. Robbins (1982-1984)
• William Ross Palmer (1984-1986)
• Marcella L. Kysilka (1986-1988)
• Bruce Jorgensen (1988-1990)
• John Richard Petry (1990-1992)
• George L. Mehaffy (1992-1994)
• Wallace D. Draper (1994-1996)
• Morgan Simpson (1996-1998)
• Barbara D. Day (1998-2000)
• Janette Staton Rogers (2000-2002)
• Blossom Snoyer Nissman (2002-2004)
• John Douglas Light (2004-2006)
• Karen Nicholson (2006-2008)
• Pamela Kramer Ertel (2008-2010)
• Nathan Bond (2010-present)

At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the ""talented tenth."" This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class, motivated individuals who acquired the professional credentials, skills, and capital to assist the race to attain socio-economic parity. Today, however, BGLOs struggle to find their place and direction in a world drastically different from the one that witnessed their genesis.In recent years, there has been a growing body of scholarship on BGLOs. This collection of essays seeks to push those who think about BGLOs to engage in more critically and empirically based analysis. This book also seeks to move BGLO members and those who work with them beyond conclusions based on hunches, conventional wisdom, intuition, and personal experience. In addition to a rich range of scholars, this volume includes a kind of call and response feature between scholars and prominent members of the BGLO community.
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• 1: Stomp the Yard, School Daze, and the Cultural Politics of Black Greek-Letter Organizations
• 2: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Ambiguity of Social Reform
• 3: Stepping into the African Diaspora Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Production of Sexuality and Femininity in Sorority Step Performance
• 4: Disciplining Women, Respectable Pledges, and the Meaning of a Soror Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Transformation of the Pledge Process
• 5: Voices of Collectivity/Agents of Change Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Future of Black Counterpublics.

Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Women focuses on the oldest Black Greek-letter sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), established in 1908. In this innovative interdisciplinary analysis of AKA, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley combines ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, oral history, and interpretive readings of popular culture and sorority rituals to examine the role of the Black sorority in women's everyday lives and more broadly within public life and politics. The study includes sorority members' stories of key cultural practices and rituals, including political participation, step dancing, pledging, hazing, and community organizing. While she remains critical of the shortcomings that plague many Black social organizations with activist programs, Whaley shows how AKA's calculated cultivation of sorority life demonstrates personal and group-directed discipline and illuminates how cultural practices intersect with politics and Black public life.
"Disciplining Women provides a unique outsider's/insider's peek into a world known only to a very few, and it situates that world within a larger context of black culture and black women's activism."--Katrina Bell McDonald, author of Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women
"Disciplining Women is a well-written scholarly engagement that drills deeper than most other recent works on this subject. As a political philosopher, I was impressed by the use of strong theory to shore up arguments."--Ricky L. Jones, author of Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities --Book Jacket

• Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Prologue: Peering into the Rooms of a Fraternity's Far Past Stage Directions: Setting the Scene Program for Act I Act I: The Nursery: Brotherhood in the First House of Zeta Psi Program for Act II Act II: The Never Land: The Fraternity and the University to 1910 Program for Act III Act III: The Mermaids' Lagoon: Coeds and Pirates Threaten Peter's Tribe Program for Act IV Act IV: The House Underground: Zeta Psi's New House Program for Act V Act V: The Pirate Ship: The Public Face of Iota Epilogue: When the Zetes Grew Up Appendix: Membership of Zeta Psi Iota as Compiled from Alumni Registers, Wall Panels, and Yearbooks Notes Bibliography.
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"The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi" takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details of everyday life in the first fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, and sets this story into the rich social and historical context of West Coast America at the turn of the last century. In particular, Wilkie examines men's coming-of-age experiences in a period when gender roles and relations were undergoing dramatic changes. Her innovative study illuminates shifting notions of masculinity and at the same time reveals new insights about the inner workings of fraternal orders and their role in American society.
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• Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Prologue: Peering into the Rooms of a Fraternity's Far Past Stage Directions: Setting the Scene Program for Act I Act I: The Nursery: Brotherhood in the First House of Zeta Psi Program for Act II Act II: The Never Land: The Fraternity and the University to 1910 Program for Act III Act III: The Mermaids' Lagoon: Coeds and Pirates Threaten Peter's Tribe Program for Act IV Act IV: The House Underground: Zeta Psi's New House Program for Act V Act V: The Pirate Ship: The Public Face of Iota Epilogue: When the Zetes Grew Up Appendix: Membership of Zeta Psi Iota as Compiled from Alumni Registers, Wall Panels, and Yearbooks Notes Bibliography.
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"The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi" takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details of everyday life in the first fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, and sets this story into the rich social and historical context of West Coast America at the turn of the last century. In particular, Wilkie examines men's coming-of-age experiences in a period when gender roles and relations were undergoing dramatic changes. Her innovative study illuminates shifting notions of masculinity and at the same time reveals new insights about the inner workings of fraternal orders and their role in American society.
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• From the beginning : a history of college fraternities and sororities / Craig L. Torbenson
• Links, legacies, and letters : a cultural history of Black Greek-letter organizations / Deborah E. Whaley
• Asian Americans in sororities and fraternities : in search of a home and place / Edith Wen-Chu Chen
• Nuestra historia y futuro (our history and future) : Latino(a) Greek fraternities and sororities / Susana M. Munoz and Juan R. Guardia
• Preserving and creating traditions : a native American emergence in Greek organizations / Linda Kelly
• Multicutural fraternities and sororities: a hodgepodge of transient multiethnic groups / Amy E. Wells and Mark K. Dolan
• Challenging the heterosexual model of brotherhood : the gay fraternity's dilemma / King-To Yeung
• Praising God and maintaining tradition : religious diversity within fraternities and sororities / Craig L. Torbenson
• Rushing the wall, crossing the sands : cross-racial membership in U.S. college fraternities and sororities / Matthew W. Hughey.

The 1950s are arguably the watershed era in the civil rights movement with the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and the desegregation of Little Rock (Arkansas) High School in 1957. It was during this period - 1955 to be exact - that sociologist Alfred M. Lee published his seminal work "Fraternities without Brotherhood: A Study of Prejudice on the American Campus". Lee's book was the first and last book to explore diversity within college fraternal groups. More than fifty years later, Craig L. Torbenson and Gregory S. Parks revisit this issue more broadly in their edited volume "Brothers and Sisters: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities". This volume draws from a variety of disciplines in an attempt to provide a holistic analysis of diversity within collegiate fraternal life. It also brings a wide range of scholarly approaches to the inquiry of diversity within college fraternities and sororities. It explores not only from whence these groups have come but where they are currently situated and what issues arise as they progress.
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• Camaraderie and resistance : the founding and function of college fraternities
• The sacred, the secular, and the manly
• Very fraternally yours : national brotherhood in the nineteenth century
• Greeks and barbs : social class and the rise of the fraternity in the postbellum years
• Fussers and fast women : fraternity men in the 1920s
• Democracy, drinking, and violence : post-World War II fraternities.

This title presents Frat boy behavior and its consequences. Here is the first book to recount the full history of white college fraternities in America. Nicholas Syrett traces these organizations from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, paying special attention to how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history.Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, ""The Company He Keeps"" explores the formation of what Syrett calls 'fraternal masculinity'. He describes how men have gained prestige and respect, especially from other men, by being masculine. Many factors - such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness - have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Whatever the criteria, Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, not just through exclusion from the organizations themselves but often from college life more broadly. He argues that fraternity men have often proved their masculinity by using their classmates as foils.Syrett also investigates the culture of sexual exploitation that had made its home in college fraternities by the early twentieth century. He offers explanations for the origins of this phenomenon and why it persists. He also recounts the hidden history of gay men who have made their home in college fraternities since the early twentieth century.Readers will find in ""The Company He Keeps"" not only an engaging history of white college fraternities, but also an insightful account of the evolution of a much more widespread culture of youthful and sexually aggressive masculinity.
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• Camaraderie and resistance : the founding and function of college fraternities
• The sacred, the secular, and the manly
• Very fraternally yours : national brotherhood in the nineteenth century
• Greeks and barbs : social class and the rise of the fraternity in the postbellum years
• Fussers and fast women : fraternity men in the 1920s
• Democracy, drinking, and violence : post-World War II fraternities.

This title presents Frat boy behavior and its consequences. Here is the first book to recount the full history of white college fraternities in America. Nicholas Syrett traces these organizations from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, paying special attention to how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history.Based on extensive research at twelve different schools and analyzing at least twenty national fraternities, ""The Company He Keeps"" explores the formation of what Syrett calls 'fraternal masculinity'. He describes how men have gained prestige and respect, especially from other men, by being masculine. Many factors - such as class, religiosity, race, sexuality, athleticism, intelligence, and recklessness - have contributed to particular versions of fraternal masculinity at different times. Whatever the criteria, Syrett demonstrates the ways that fraternity brothers' masculinity has had consequences for other students on campus as well, not just through exclusion from the organizations themselves but often from college life more broadly. He argues that fraternity men have often proved their masculinity by using their classmates as foils.Syrett also investigates the culture of sexual exploitation that had made its home in college fraternities by the early twentieth century. He offers explanations for the origins of this phenomenon and why it persists. He also recounts the hidden history of gay men who have made their home in college fraternities since the early twentieth century.Readers will find in ""The Company He Keeps"" not only an engaging history of white college fraternities, but also an insightful account of the evolution of a much more widespread culture of youthful and sexually aggressive masculinity.
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