Myron T Strong

This interview brings scholars together to discuss recent attacks on the education system and to share thoughts on activism and justice. It's a frank conversation that engages in complexities around conservative ideologies and strategies for change. All the participants, Natasha Warikoo, Dave Stovall, and Victor Ray, deeply care about social change, and I am grateful to them for offering their analyses to help navigate this historical moment. I also owe the title of this article to Dr. Dave Stovall, who mentioned it during our conversation. It perfectly encapsulates this article, not as an interview, but closer to a conversation with kin. The title is reminiscent of experiences when we were young and sitting, listening, learninga kind of orature and communication by which wisdom is passed down generation to generation, often around grandma's table. Learning does not happen solely within designated social institutions, and I am happy to share this conversation full of wisdom with you.

Comic books and graphic novels offer an excellent way to democratize the classroom and improve student learning by giving them the ability to understand social issues and social institutions in a relatable way. This article is a conversation exploring the validity of comics as tools to teach sociology. Specifically, the article does this through examining the effectiveness of comics as a way to analyze gender, the looking glass self, and the sociological imagination and exploring the use of graphic novels to replace traditional texts in the introductory sociology classroom. If one of our disciplinary goals is to change society for the better by boosting the development of sociological imaginations, looking at comics may give us the best format to do so.

This research is a qualitative study that explores the gender role ideology of Black and White men between the ages of 18-30. The study found that both groups are moving toward egalitarianism on different pathways. The pathways illustrate the effect of racial identity on gender role ideology. White respondents had a progressive egalitarianism which stemmed from ideas reflected individualism, secularization, and the identification with the grand narrative of the United States. Their respondents also reflected postmodern ideas. Overall their ideas reflect larger White racial identity and shows an overlap between the progressive understanding of modernity and with postmodernist ideas of non-deterministic definitions. Black respondents had a collaborative egalitarianism which stemmed from historical racial and economic deprivation. Subsequently, Blacks gender role ideology illustrates collaboration and communal interdependence between of Black men and women, and the Black church. Blacks...

Over the last fifteen years, there has been an explosion of reality television programs that are semi-guided. if not semi-scripted. Critics have noted that reality television reflects both the importance of race and the unwillingness to confront racism in substantive and constructive ways. Yet to these same commentators, notwithstanding their focus on race, the majority of these shows provide a very limited and stereotypical view of race.

Afrofuturism's embrace of divine feminism- the idea that women themselves have complete agency over both their lives and choices that they make-was on full display in the movie Black Panther. From the beginning, the panther goddess Bast bestowed power to a shaman who became the first that Black it is Panther women and who united grants Wakanda. one power, This and powerful it their female essence god that symbolized grants dominion. T' Challa is guided by the divine feminine, as the movie weaves a
picture of powerful women decoupled from European ideas, significant and celebrated, past, present, and fiuture. Women in the film are agents of change,
and these powerful images reject many of the negati ve tropes of Black femininity and too egalitarian often nature associated of the with relationships Africa and between patriarchal men and religious women in traditions. Black Panther are, instead, portrayed as seamless and natural. Women choose the
paths and guide the society. Specifically, the all-female warrior army sworn to protect the King of Wakanda, the Dora Milaje with the shaved and
tattooed heads is a celebration women's power. These images reflect aspects of historical reality that is often suppressed or ignored.

cated to ‘Further Reading,’ readers are referred to Anderson’s Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities, which is ‘noteworthy insofar as it offers a critique of Connell’s now almost hegemonic concept of hegemonic masculinity’ (50). This is the totality of treatment we see for Inclusive Masculinity Theory, save a very brief discussion in the chapter on sexuality. Whether one agrees or disagrees with IMT is not quite the point, rather, the point is that IMT has had a significant role in the critical study of men and masculinities – even if writing in opposition to it. This underdevelopment or absence becomes all the more obvious in the chapter on sexuality, where Edley draws on a ‘much cited paper’ by C. J. Pascoe, which shows the ‘dislocation of masculinity and sexuality, not least because it would appear to be a relatively new phenomenon’ (129), but Pascoe is not alone in exploring the phenomenon. Admittedly, there is a brief mention of Anderson’s work, but it feels unfinished, tentative, uncertain. Moreover, what can be said of the recent interest in queer theory and men’s studies on ‘sex on the down low,’ or straight men having sex with men? While the chapter on sexuality devotes a few pages to ‘gay masculinities,’ it overlooks other forms of sexuality or sexual practices. Another example of references or allusion might be taken from the chapter on the body. Towards the end of the chapter Edley writes,

Abstract Purpose This paper explores masculinity ideologies which influence family perspectives, and therefore, instigate mental distress among Black and White men between the ages of 18–30. Design Using a grounded theory approach, 30 in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the social construction of masculinity and investigate the ways in which gender ideologies influence family gender roles. Findings Black men’s gender ideology was influenced by racial identity and stressed a communal and collaborative identity which can be seen by the reliance on religion and maintaining family financial stability. White employed a pragmatic, individual perspective that emphasized individual behavior in a changing society. They embraced evolving discourses necessary to cope with changing family structure and refocused attention from family of origin conflict. Research limitations/implications Though this is a qualitative study, it does provide a starting point for further research on how the family roles of Black and White men affect their mental health. Originality/value Few studies have employed a racial comparison research design to investigate mental distress associated with gender ideologies. The paper suggests that moving forward will require, as Black men suggested, adopting a critical racial sociology of gender that emphasizes processes and social structure. Analyzing manhood acts through the lens of social marginality, identity work to claim membership in the male group, and the identification of characteristics to maintain male privileges vis-a-vis women may prove to be useful. Focusing on process allows an exploration of social forces that influence masculinity, gendered household ideologies, and mental health.

The article explores the ways that sociology fails to address the needs of community college sociologists and marginalizes them as outsiders. It argues that the structure of the discipline, both training and focus, is the major barrier to becoming inclusive. Based on this, it explores ways in which sociology can be inclusive of community college sociologists and how they can address their needs. Ironically, as a result of this position, community college sociologists may be in the best position to challenge the structure of the discipline and create social change.

Purpose:
This article explores masculinity ideologies which influence family perspectives, and therefore, instigate mental distress among Black and White men between the ages of 18-30.

Design
Using a grounded theory approach, thirty in-depth interviews were conducted, we explore the social construction of masculinity and investigate the ways in which gender ideologies influence family gender roles.
Findings
Black men’s gender ideology was influenced by racial identity and stressed a communal and collaborative identity which can be seen by the reliance on religion and maintaining family financial stability. White employed a pragmatic, individual perspective that emphasized individual behavior in a changing society. They embraced evolving discourses necessary to cope with changing family structure and refocused attention from family of origin conflict.

Research limitations/ implications
Though this is a qualitative study, it does provide a starting point for further research on how the family roles of Black and White men affect their mental health.

Originality/value
Few studies have employed a racial comparison research design to investigate mental distress associated with gender ideologies. The article suggests that moving forward will require, as Black men suggested, adopting a critical racial sociology of gender that emphasizes processes and social structure. Analyzing manhood acts through the lens of social marginality; identity work to claim membership in the male group; and the identification of characteristics to maintain male privileges vis-à-vis women may prove to be useful. Focusing on process allows an exploration of social forces that influence masculinity, gendered household ideologies and mental health.