In this chapter, the author gives an accurate definition of the black sociology as the study of structure and functioning of the black community (249). This study encompasses values, groups and race relations among black people. The centrality of this study cannot be gainsaid because it focuses on understanding the black community in order to raise their voices and values. I believe that the chapter has highlighted the conditions that characterized the lives of black people. These people lived in ghettos in which they experienced poverty and isolation. Black people had little or no voice, leading to the struggle for social emancipation. The author recognizes the invaluable role played by leading black personalities like W.E.B. DuBois.
On the subject of racism, the author recognizes the racial inequality had visited the black community in various parts of the United States. The problem off racism is has confronted the country for too long. The black community was viewed by the White supremacists as inferior people who do not have any chance of accessing equal opportunities. It explains the reason black people who could afford better housing were often prevented from living the ghetto. Racism led to open discrimination of black people by White capitalists and White workers (254). Clearly, African Americans disliked this form of treatment in a country they equally fought to liberate from the yolk of colonialism.
On the subject of culture, the author argues that African Americans constitute a cultural community. This proposition is true because the African community in the United States subscribed to some common values and norms which were fundamental and defined their way of living. As noted in the Kawaida paradigm, the challenge of African Americans is their culture (260). He added that the black people should have a cultural revolution ahead of a political revolution to restore their culture from an apparent enslavement that lifted them from their history into the mixed history and culture of the Europeans.
Work Cited
Introduction to Black Studies. “Chapter 6: Black Sociology.” N.d. 249-284. Print.
