Andrew Billingsley | Academic Influence

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Andrew Billingsley

Sociology

#1626

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#1837

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#592

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Andrew Billingsley's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew Billingsley is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and college professor who served as the 8th President of Morgan State University from 1975 to 1984. Biography Billingsley was born on March 20, 1926, in Marion, Alabama, the son of Silas and Lucy Billingsley. He served in the United States Army during World War II from 1944 to 1946. After his military service, he obtained his A.B. degree from Grinnell College in 1951. Thereafter, he obtained his M.S. degree from Boston University in 1956, and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1964. While at Brandeis University, Billingsley met his future wife, Amy Loretta Tate, who was a fellow student. They were married in 1961 and had two children.

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Andrew Billingsley's Published Works

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Black Families in White America. (1969) (639)
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African-American Families (1993) (584)
Mighty like a river : the black church and social reform (2000) (268)
The characteristics of northern black churches with community health outreach programs. (1994) (214)
The Church, the Family, and the School in the African American Community. (1991) (206)
Child Neglect Among the Poor: A Study of Parental Adequacy in Families of Three Ethnic Groups. (1970) (157)
Climbing Jacob's ladder (1992) (85)
Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum (1970) (81)
Children of the Storm: Black Children and American Child Welfare (1972) (78)
The role of the black church in working with black adolescents. (1994) (73)
Black Families and White Social Science (1970) (62)
Bureaucratic and Professional Orientation Patterns in Social Casework (1964) (52)
Race and Nation (2002) (48)
The Black Family in the 21st Century and the Church as an Action System: A Macro Perspective (1998) (35)
Violence in the Black family : correlates and consequences (1989) (29)
Strategies of Free-Form Web Curation: Processes of Creative Engagement with Prior Work (2017) (28)
Will the recent changes in protected area management and the creation of fi ve new protected areas improve biodiversity conservation in Cambodia ? (2016) (23)
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. By William Julius Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 204 pp. $12.50 (1979) (23)
A Black Response to Christopher Jencks's Inequality and Certain Other Issues (1973) (21)
Mighty like a river (1999) (18)
Black families and the struggle for survival (1974) (16)
Building Strong Faculties in Black Colleges. (1982) (14)
Family Functioning in the Low-income Black Community (1969) (11)
Research on African-American families : a holistic perspective (1989) (11)
Black Families and the Struggle for Survival: Teaching Our Children to Walk Tall (1976) (11)
The Sociology of Knowledge of William J. Wilson: Placing The Truly Disadvantaged in its Sociohistorical Context (1989) (10)
The Impact of Technology on Afro-American Families. (1988) (9)
Negro Family Life in America (1965) (8)
Disproportionality of Minorities in Child Welfare : Synthesis of Research Findings Prepared for Race Matters Consortium (2005) (7)
Growing up Black in Rural Mississippi: Memories of a Family, Heritage of a Place.@@@You Can't Build a Chimney from the Top. (1992) (5)
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison (2017) (4)
New-Time Religion (2003) (4)
The Evolution of the Black Family. (1976) (3)
School desegregation and residential segregation (1979) (3)
Yearning to Breathe Free (2021) (3)
RECORDING AND ANALYSIS OF THE REC YARD AT ALCATRAZ ISLAND (2013) (2)
The Educational Needs of Black Children: Working Papers on Meeting the Education Needs of Cultural Minorities. (1980) (2)
The Struggle for Mental Health (1974) (1)
Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth Century Afro-American History@@@The State of Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future@@@On Being Black: An In-Group Analysis (Being Essays in Honor of W. E. B. DuBois (1988) (1)
3. Cultural Competence: At the Heart of Capacity Building (2007) (1)
Intellectual Racism (2016) (1)
The Helping Tradition in the Black Family and Community. By Joanne M. Martin and Elmer P. Martin. Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of Social Workers, 1985. 109 pp. $12.95 paper (1986) (0)
Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert and the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah (2003) (0)
Edward Blyden: apostle of Blackness (1970) (0)
If Tombstones Could Talk: The Evolution of the Black Church in Savannah (2003) (0)
One More River to Cross: The Black Church Faces the Future (2003) (0)
Therapy in the Ghetto: Political Impotence and Personal Disintegration. By Barbara Lerner. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1972. 222 pp. $8.95 (1973) (0)
Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian (2003) (0)
General Sherman and the Black Church (2003) (0)
Twelve Gates to the City (2003) (0)
Symposium announcement (2005) (0)
First African Baptist Church, Richmond: Seedbed of Social Reform (2003) (0)
The Storm Is Passing Over: The Black Church in Perspective (2003) (0)
Rangeland Resources Management (2009) (0)
Volume Information (1979) (0)
The Black Church Confronts the HIV/AIDS Crisis (2003) (0)
Often Seen, Seldom Called: The Legacy of Jerena Lee (2003) (0)
Investigating vernacular design at the Treviño-Uribe Rancho complex in San Ygnacio, Texas. Poster presented at the 2020 Virtual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, May 9, 2020 (2020) (0)
Book Review:Black Rage. William H. Grier, Price M. Cobbs (1969) (0)
Black Families and National Policy (1975) (0)
A Tale of Two Cities: Black Churches in Denver and Atlanta (2003) (0)
The Crisis of Emancipation and Reconstruction in Savannah (2003) (0)
Book Review: Race and the Social Sciences (1970) (0)
The Black Church and the Male Youth Crisis (2003) (0)
Black Children in White Families (1968) (0)
Social Science and Social Welfare: Toward a Society for the Solution of Social Problems (1974) (0)
The role of the social worker in the rehabilitation of patients from mental hospitals who have been treated with chlorpromazine. (1956) (0)
The social worker role in child protection (1963) (0)
FAMILY, CHRISTIAN VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF, IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN (1995) (0)

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