Robert E. Washington is Professor, Bryn Mawr College. Donald Cunnigen is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, University of Rhode Island.

The editors' insightful commitment to interdisciplinary research effectively answers the purposeful neglect of the famine through academic, artistic, and pedagogical correctives....this collection provides an engaging appraisal of the full legacy of the famine. Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• Chapter 1 Listing of Figures Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Conflicting Conceptions of the Turf: Theoretical Debates about the Social Role of Black Sociologists: Chapter 4 The Contributions of Blacks to Sociological Knowledge: A Problem of Theory and Role to 1950 Chapter 5 On Reconsidering Park, Johnson, DuBois, Frazier, and Reid: Reply to Benjamin Bowser's "The Contribution of Black to Sociological Knowledge" Chapter 6 Classical Black Sociologists and Social Theory: Anatomy of a Controversy Chapter 7 The Negro Problem and the Character of the Black Community: Charles Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, and the Constitution of a Black Sociological Tradition, 1920-1935 Chapter 8 The Idea of Black Sociology: Its Cultural and Political Significance Chapter 9 Outside the Spotlight: Case Studies of Lesser Known Black Sociological Careers: Chapter 10 Studies of the African Diaspora: The Work and Reflections of St. Clair Drake Chapter 11 Horace Cayton: Reflections on an Unfulfilled Sociological Career Chapter 12 Walter R. Chivers: An Advocate of Situation Sociology Chapter 13 Using Pragmatist Sociology for Praxis: The Career of Charles H. Parrish Chapter 14 Daniel C. Thompson and Butler A. Jones: A Comparison of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sociology Chapter 15 Conclusion: An Overview on the Black Intellectual Encounter with Sociology: Chapter 16 Sociology by Blacks versus Black Sociology: Revisioning Black American Social Reality Chapter 17 Notes on the Contributors