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Rutledge Dennis

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#2228

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#2482

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#725

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Rutledge Dennis'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, Rutledge Melvin Dennis is an American sociologist who is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. A noted expert on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, he was formerly the first coordinator of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was the president of the Association of Black Sociologists from 1982 to 1983. In 2001, he received the Association's Joseph S. Himes Distinguished Scholarship Award. In 2006, he received the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. The statement accompanying this award described Dennis as "one of the leading scholars on DuBois." In 2010, he created the Dennis-Weathers award in honor of his parents and godparents. The award is given annually by Virginia Commonwealth University to an exemplary African American studies student.

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Rutledge Dennis's Published Works

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Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods (1993) (167)
Social Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and the Metaphysics of Race. (1995) (107)
Black-White Differences in Religiosity: Item Analyses and A Formal Structural Test* (1990) (51)
The politics of annexation : oligarchic power in a southern city (1982) (22)
Sociological theory: Historical and formal (1976) (19)
Marginality, Power and Social Structure: Issues in Race, Class, and Gender Analysis (2005) (14)
Du Bois and the Role of the Educated Elite (1977) (11)
Prejudice Versus Discrimination: An Empirical Example and Theoretical Extension (1970) (10)
Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods. Sage Focus Editions, Volume 157. (1993) (10)
The classics revisited (1992) (8)
Convergences and divergences in race theorizing: a critical assessment of race formation theory and systemic racism theory (2013) (7)
The Black Intellectuals (1998) (6)
THE AGE OF MARGINALITY (2004) (4)
Towards a theory of biculturalism (2008) (3)
The Academics and Politics of Post-Tenure Evaluations. (1985) (3)
Racial and ethnic politics (1994) (3)
Theories of the Black Family: The Weak-Family and Strong-Family Schools as Competing Ideologies. (1976) (2)
Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformation (2008) (2)
Not All That Bright (1995) (2)
Confrontational Politics (2020) (2)
Childhood, Identity, Social Ambivalence, and the Mystique of Race (2014) (2)
The Situational Politics of Booker T. Washington (2006) (1)
The Intellectual as a Representative of the “New Black”: Challenges for the 21st Century (2006) (1)
Biculturalism, Self Indentity and Societal Development (2008) (1)
James E. Blackwell and Organizational Insurgency (2019) (1)
Biculturalism and the dialectics of identity (2008) (1)
Science, knowledge, and values: A response to Mack Jones (1977) (1)
The black middle class (1995) (1)
THE ROLE OF AN URBAN ELITE IN A MUNICIPAL ANNEXATION DISPUTE (1980) (1)
Introduction: The bicultural self (2008) (1)
The Black Middle Class: Research in Race and Ethnic Relations, Vol. 8. (1996) (0)
Dual Marginality and the Intersecting Paradoxes of Race, Class, and Gender (2004) (0)
W.E.B. Du Bois : the scholar as activist (1996) (0)
Ellington, Duke (1899–1974) (2015) (0)
Mays, Benjamin (1894–1984) (2015) (0)
Masking (Wearing the Mask) (2015) (0)
Autobiographic notes on becoming musically bicultural (2008) (0)
Book Review:In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in 20th-Century Norfolk, Virginia. Earl Lewis (1992) (0)
Du Boisian Thought in Contemporary America: From Double Consciousness to Dual Marginality (2017) (0)
Evolving White Racial Consciousness (2006) (0)
The new black : alternative paradigms and strategies for the 21st century (2007) (0)
Ellison, Ralph (1914–94) (2015) (0)
Gentrification (2021) (0)
Donald G. Baker, Race, Ethnicity and Power, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, 243 pp (1991) (0)
Book Reviews : Donald G. Baker, Race, Ethnicity and Power, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, 243 pp (1991) (0)
Robeson, Paul Leroy (1898–1976) (2015) (0)
The New Black and the Making of the Black Social Imagination (2006) (0)
I. Q. and race (1976) (0)

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