Black Haze, Second Edition

Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities

Ricky L. Jones

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781438456720, 9781438456737
• eBook ISBN: 9781438456744
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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 of a 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 forward in addressing issues surrounding fraternities, violent hazing, black men, and American society.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition: Black Haze Revisited
• Preface to the First Edition
• Chapter One: Hazing Then and Now
• Chapter Two: Men, Media, and Movements
• Chapter Three: The History of Black Greek-Letter Fraternities
• Chapter Four: The Pledge Process as Sacrifice
• Chapter Five: The Hegemonic Struggle and Domination in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities
• Chapter Six: Acceptance, Freedom, and Identity Construction In Black Greek-Letter Fraternities
• Chapter Seven: Beyond the Fraternal Self
• Afterword: Reflections On Failure
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover