Clovis E Semmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clovis E Semmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clovis E |
| FAMILY NAME | Semmes |
| SIGNATURE | SEMMES C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Entrepreneur of Health
Charitable Collaborations in Bronzeville, 1928-1944
In the twentieth century, race-based residential and commercial segregation that supported racial oppression and inequality became an elemental characteristic of urban black communities. Conflict-ridden, black-white relationships were common. However, the Chicago Defender Charities, Inc., the entity that sponsors the largest African American parade in the country and that emerged in 1947, embodied a tradition of charitable giving, self-help, and …
The Regal Theater and Black Culture
Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals
Existential sociology or the sociology of group survival, elevation, and liberation
E. Franklin Frazier's Theory of the Black Family
Despite many accolades, E. Franklin Frazier, the first African American to be elected to the American Sociological Society, is also an object of scorn. Specifically, some accuse Frazier of a view that blames the ills of the Black community on female-headed households, illegitimacy, and family disorganization. Some also accuse Frazier of characterizing the Black family as broken and pathological and the opinion that families must be formal and nuc…
The Dialectics of Cultural Survival and the Community Artist
Developing Trust
This article analyzes the patient/practitioner encounters of African-Americans who utilized natural (drugless) systems of health care. It identifies those features of the encounter that engendered trust. The view presented is that trust is a necessary component of sustained, uncoerced interaction and that patients typically seek to control the patient/practitioner encounter. Patient acquiescence and dependency in the encounter is not automatic an…
The Sociological Tradition of E. Franklin Frazier
The thesis of this paper is that the core of E. Franklin Frazier's empirical and theoretical work points to the issue of assimilation as a central problem facing Black Americans. As such, Frazier addresses the critical question of what Black Americans will become racially and culturally. This question is couched within what I argue to be the central focus of Black Studies as a field of study, i.e., the problem of cultural hegemony. By cultural he…
Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy
Psychologist Cedric Clark (1973) identified two major aspects of the Black experience: feelings of not being recognized and feelings of not being respected. Recognition and respect are embodied in the construct of legitimacy. As a minority within a White-dominated society, Black Americans must perennially address the problem of legitimacy. Given the existence of cultural domination (see Semmes, 1982), the problem of legitimacy is a critical facto…
Foundations of an Afrocentric Social Science
The focus of this analysis is to clarify the epistemological base and emergent direction of Black Studies; to establish the role of social science in the Black Studies enterprise; and to suggest directions for generating social-scientific theory, paradigms, models, and research in Black Studies. A basic premise of this analysis is that if one considers logical and empirical categories linked to the nascent growth of Black Studies, then Afrocentri…
Understanding Race Relations.Ina Corinne Brown
Developing Trust
This article analyzes the patient/practitioner encounters of African-Americans who utilized natural (drugless) systems of health care. It identifies those features of the encounter that engendered trust. The view presented is that trust is a necessary component of sustained, uncoerced interaction and that patients typically seek to control the patient/practitioner encounter. Patient acquiescence and dependency in the encounter is not automatic an…
Existential sociology or the sociology of group survival, elevation, and liberation
The Sociological Tradition of E. Franklin Frazier
The thesis of this paper is that the core of E. Franklin Frazier's empirical and theoretical work points to the issue of assimilation as a central problem facing Black Americans. As such, Frazier addresses the critical question of what Black Americans will become racially and culturally. This question is couched within what I argue to be the central focus of Black Studies as a field of study, i.e., the problem of cultural hegemony. By cultural he…
Understanding Race Relations.Ina Corinne Brown
Foundations of an Afrocentric Social Science
The focus of this analysis is to clarify the epistemological base and emergent direction of Black Studies; to establish the role of social science in the Black Studies enterprise; and to suggest directions for generating social-scientific theory, paradigms, models, and research in Black Studies. A basic premise of this analysis is that if one considers logical and empirical categories linked to the nascent growth of Black Studies, then Afrocentri…
Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy
Psychologist Cedric Clark (1973) identified two major aspects of the Black experience: feelings of not being recognized and feelings of not being respected. Recognition and respect are embodied in the construct of legitimacy. As a minority within a White-dominated society, Black Americans must perennially address the problem of legitimacy. Given the existence of cultural domination (see Semmes, 1982), the problem of legitimacy is a critical facto…
The Sociological Tradition of E. Franklin Frazier
The thesis of this paper is that the core of E. Franklin Frazier's empirical and theoretical work points to the issue of assimilation as a central problem facing Black Americans. As such, Frazier addresses the critical question of what Black Americans will become racially and culturally. This question is couched within what I argue to be the central focus of Black Studies as a field of study, i.e., the problem of cultural hegemony. By cultural he…
Developing Trust
This article analyzes the patient/practitioner encounters of African-Americans who utilized natural (drugless) systems of health care. It identifies those features of the encounter that engendered trust. The view presented is that trust is a necessary component of sustained, uncoerced interaction and that patients typically seek to control the patient/practitioner encounter. Patient acquiescence and dependency in the encounter is not automatic an…
The Dialectics of Cultural Survival and the Community Artist
E. Franklin Frazier's Theory of the Black Family
Despite many accolades, E. Franklin Frazier, the first African American to be elected to the American Sociological Society, is also an object of scorn. Specifically, some accuse Frazier of a view that blames the ills of the Black community on female-headed households, illegitimacy, and family disorganization. Some also accuse Frazier of characterizing the Black family as broken and pathological and the opinion that families must be formal and nuc…
Existential sociology or the sociology of group survival, elevation, and liberation
The Regal Theater and Black Culture
Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals
Entrepreneur of Health
Charitable Collaborations in Bronzeville, 1928-1944
In the twentieth century, race-based residential and commercial segregation that supported racial oppression and inequality became an elemental characteristic of urban black communities. Conflict-ridden, black-white relationships were common. However, the Chicago Defender Charities, Inc., the entity that sponsors the largest African American parade in the country and that emerged in 1947, embodied a tradition of charitable giving, self-help, and …
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)