Robert Staples
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Staples |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Staples |
| SIGNATURE | STAPLES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
White Power, Black Crime, and Racial Politics
(2011). White Power, Black Crime, and Racial Politics. The Black Scholar: Vol. 41, Special Anniversary Conference Issue: A Celebration of the First Forty Years November 19–20, 2009 Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, pp. 31-41
The Post Racial Presidency: The Myths of a Nation and its People
Black Deprivation-White Privilege: The Assault On Affirmative Action
(1995). Black Deprivation-White Privilege: The Assault On Affirmative Action. The Black Scholar: Vol. 25, Affirmative Action, pp. 2-6
Black Families at the Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects
Black Families at the Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects
Hand Me the Rope—I Will Hang Myself: Observations on the Clarence Thomas Hearings
Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy
Social Inequality and Black Sexual Pathology: The Essential Relationship
Sexuality, in a historical and biological sense, was the tool by which Homosapiens reproduced their species. There is evidence that in its original form, there were few regulations or controls of this powerful drive when property was held in common by human tribes. Only as the concept of private property developed did sexuality become a part of property relationships in Western society. The female body was objectified and bartered as a commodity …
Social Structure and Black Family Life: An Analysis of Current Trends
Many changes have occurred in this country since 1954, covering a wide array of personalities, values, and institutions and bringing about a marked change in the functioning of society as a whole. These changes have been most dramatic within the institution of the family, where the most telling effect is on our personal lives. We are all, to some degree, affected by increasing sexual permissiveness, changes in sexrole expectations, a declining fe…
Black Male Genocide: A Final Solution to the Race Problem in America
The Political Economy of Black Family Life
(1986). The Political Economy of Black Family Life. The Black Scholar: Vol. 17, The Black Family: 1986, pp. 2-11
Culture, Ideology and Black Television Images
(1985). Culture, Ideology and Black Television Images. The Black Scholar: Vol. 16, Politics and Culture, pp. 10-20
Changes in Black Family Structure: The Conflict between Family Ideology and Structural Conditions
The family ideology of black Americans is compared with actualfamily arrangements and lifestyles. Dissonance between the two is explained by the intervention of structural conditions that prevent the fulfillment of normative familial roles by black males. Exchange theory is used to explain the conflict between family ideology and structural conditions: in general, black women fail to marry or remain married when the costs outweigh the benefits
Racial Ideology and Intellectual Racism: Blacks in Academia
(1984). Racial Ideology and Intellectual Racism: Blacks in Academia. The Black Scholar: Vol. 15, Blacks in Higher Education, pp. 2-17
Black masculinity: The black male's role in American society
The World of Black Singles: Changing Patterns of Male/Female Relations
Tom Bradley's Defeat: The Impact of Racial Symbols on Political Campaigns
The World of Black Singles: Changing Patterns of Male/Female Relations
Black Manhood in the 1970s: A Critical Look Back
the end of the 60s a new era was ushered in for black men. The 70s witnessed the bourgeoning of black nationalism with its attendant elevation of the black male to his rightful and historical role as head of the black family and community. Instead, the 70s proved to be a decade where women, mostly white, a few black, gained ascendency. As it was, the decade's flowering of black manhood turned into a withering away of what little supremacy they ha…
Racial and Cultural Variations among American Families: A Decennial Review of the Literature on Minority Families
Robert Staples, , Racial and Cultural Variations among American Families: A Decennial Review of the Literature on Minority Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 4, Decade Review (Nov., 1980), pp. 887-903
The Black Family: Essays and Studies, 2nd ed
The Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists
(1979). The Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists. The Black Scholar: Vol. 10, Human Rights USA, pp. 24-33
A Rejoinder: Black Feminism and the Cult of Masculinity: The Danger Within
response to my article, Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists,1 was not unexpected, as it was written to provoke dialogue on the subject. That it was so sharply divided along gender lines was not what I expected or wanted. The men, whether they agreed with me or not, discussed the issues I raised. The women chose to attack me as a male rather than deal with the flawed work of their sister in arms, Michele Wallace.2 From reading…
Family Planning and the Young Minority Male: A Pilot Project
In Los Angeles the first coordinated program the Young Inner-City Males Project sought to reach Black Spanish speaking Asian and American Indian males in relation to family life education family planning and parental responsibilities. The project developed an approach to the promotion of sexual responsibility and the reduction of repetition of unwanted out-of-wedlock pregnancy through goal-directed support and assistance to unwed fathers and pote…
The Black family: Essays and Studies
Changes in Black Family Structure: The Conflict between Family Ideology and Structural Conditions
The family ideology of black Americans is compared with actualfamily arrangements and lifestyles. Dissonance between the two is explained by the intervention of structural conditions that prevent the fulfillment of normative familial roles by black males. Exchange theory is used to explain the conflict between family ideology and structural conditions: in general, black women fail to marry or remain married when the costs outweigh the benefits
Towards a Sociology of the Black Family: A Theoretical and Methodological Assessment
The Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists
(1979). The Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists. The Black Scholar: Vol. 10, Human Rights USA, pp. 24-33
The Myth of the Black Matriarchy
(1981). The Myth of the Black Matriarchy. The Black Scholar: Vol. 12, The Best of the Black Scholar: The Black Woman, pp. 26-34
Racial Ideology and Intellectual Racism: Blacks in Academia
(1984). Racial Ideology and Intellectual Racism: Blacks in Academia. The Black Scholar: Vol. 15, Blacks in Higher Education, pp. 2-17
Masculinity and Race: The Dual Dilemma of Black Men
This article delineates the special status of black men in contemporary society. First, considering some of the common stereotypes of black men from a historical perspective, alternative explanations are posited to counter prevailing views of the Afro‐American male as emasculated, dominated by women, and lacking in positive self‐esteem. The socialization process and problems of black youth are examined. Afterwards the special roles of lover, husb…
Culture, Ideology and Black Television Images
(1985). Culture, Ideology and Black Television Images. The Black Scholar: Vol. 16, Politics and Culture, pp. 10-20
Race, Liberalism-Conservatism and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness: A Bi-Racial Comparison
Black Male Genocide: A Final Solution to the Race Problem in America
To Be Young, Black and Oppressed
The Black Family in Evolutionary Perspective
(1974). The Black Family in Evolutionary Perspective. The Black Scholar: Vol. 5, The Black Family, pp. 2-9
The Matricentric Family System: A Cross-Cultural Examination
This paper reports on the matricentric family system as it appears in three different societies: the Caribbean, the Nayar of India and Afro-American families in the United States. The author's purpose is to show the variations in female-centered families by studying their nature and functions among different groups in diverse parts of the world. A suggestion for more conceptual clarity of the matricentric family concept is posed in order to provi…
The Political Economy of Black Family Life
(1986). The Political Economy of Black Family Life. The Black Scholar: Vol. 17, The Black Family: 1986, pp. 2-11
Family Planning and the Young Minority Male: A Pilot Project
In Los Angeles the first coordinated program the Young Inner-City Males Project sought to reach Black Spanish speaking Asian and American Indian males in relation to family life education family planning and parental responsibilities. The project developed an approach to the promotion of sexual responsibility and the reduction of repetition of unwanted out-of-wedlock pregnancy through goal-directed support and assistance to unwed fathers and pote…
Race and Colonialism: The Domestic Case in Theory and Practice
the post-slavery years various theoretical perspectives have competed as an explanation of the status of Afro-Americans in the United States. Until the last ten years those theories were all in the range of biological determinism to racial equality through assimilation. While Pan -African is m took hold as a social movement during certain early periods, it never fitted into the mainstream of scholarly thought about the condition or fate of AfroAm…
The Myth of the Impotent Black Male
White Power, Black Crime, and Racial Politics
(2011). White Power, Black Crime, and Racial Politics. The Black Scholar: Vol. 41, Special Anniversary Conference Issue: A Celebration of the First Forty Years November 19–20, 2009 Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, pp. 31-41
Black Manhood in the 1970s: A Critical Look Back
the end of the 60s a new era was ushered in for black men. The 70s witnessed the bourgeoning of black nationalism with its attendant elevation of the black male to his rightful and historical role as head of the black family and community. Instead, the 70s proved to be a decade where women, mostly white, a few black, gained ascendency. As it was, the decade's flowering of black manhood turned into a withering away of what little supremacy they ha…
Male‐female sexual variations: Functions of biology or culture
Male-female disparities in sexual attitudes and behavior are so obvious, and pervade all strata of the society, that it would be easy to assume that this is the natural order of things. Howeverv any historical or cross-cultural analysis would challenge many notions concerning innate difference among males and females in sexual attitudesv desire or behavior. From both an historical and cross-cultural perspective, societies and epochs may vary grea…
Research on Black Sexuality: Its Implication for Family Life, Sex Education, and Public Policy
In American society there exists a cultural belief that Blacks have lower morals than whites. The higher rate of out-of-wedlock births, a greater incidence of consensual unions, the sexual liasons of white men with Black women all serve to fortify this cultural image of Black people as a sexually animated group that is immune to any restraints on its sexual conduct. This image of Blacks as a sexually liberated people has inculcated in the public …
Educating the Black Male at Various Class Levels for Marital Roles
Birth Control: South Carolina Uses It For Public Health. Life Magazine, 1940, 8, 64-68. Education: Rise of Birth Control: Centers Operate in 42 States, N. Y. Convention Reveals. Newsweek, 1940, 15, 29. Luce, Robert B. (Ed.) The Faces of Five Dec. ades: Selections from Fifty Years of The New Republic, 1914-1964. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University …
Black Deprivation-White Privilege: The Assault On Affirmative Action
(1995). Black Deprivation-White Privilege: The Assault On Affirmative Action. The Black Scholar: Vol. 25, Affirmative Action, pp. 2-6
Tom Bradley's Defeat: The Impact of Racial Symbols on Political Campaigns
A Rejoinder: Black Feminism and the Cult of Masculinity: The Danger Within
response to my article, Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists,1 was not unexpected, as it was written to provoke dialogue on the subject. That it was so sharply divided along gender lines was not what I expected or wanted. The men, whether they agreed with me or not, discussed the issues I raised. The women chose to attack me as a male rather than deal with the flawed work of their sister in arms, Michele Wallace.2 From reading…
The Myth of Black Sexual Superiority: A Re-Examination
(1982). The Myth of Black Sexual Superiority: A Re-Examination. The Black Scholar: Vol. 13, The Best of the Black Scholar: The Black Woman II, pp. 26-32
Research on the Negro Family: A Source for Family Practitioners
Letters
The Myth of the Black Matriarchy
(1981). The Myth of the Black Matriarchy. The Black Scholar: Vol. 12, The Best of the Black Scholar: The Black Woman, pp. 26-34
Educating the Black Male at Various Class Levels for Marital Roles
Birth Control: South Carolina Uses It For Public Health. Life Magazine, 1940, 8, 64-68. Education: Rise of Birth Control: Centers Operate in 42 States, N. Y. Convention Reveals. Newsweek, 1940, 15, 29. Luce, Robert B. (Ed.) The Faces of Five Dec. ades: Selections from Fifty Years of The New Republic, 1914-1964. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University …
Letters
The Mexican-American Family: Its Modification over Time and Space
HE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND WORK of the Mexican people in the United States are no longer a problem only of the borderlands. An historical process has been at work lifting this problem above local and sectional concern. It now involves communities as distant from the United StatesMexican border as Chicago, New York and Detroit. It shows up in an arc stretching from Arkansas to Northern California. It is documented in federal reports on employment, …
The Myth of the Impotent Black Male
Debate
Towards a Sociology of the Black Family: A Theoretical and Methodological Assessment
Research on Black Sexuality: Its Implication for Family Life, Sex Education, and Public Policy
In American society there exists a cultural belief that Blacks have lower morals than whites. The higher rate of out-of-wedlock births, a greater incidence of consensual unions, the sexual liasons of white men with Black women all serve to fortify this cultural image of Black people as a sexually animated group that is immune to any restraints on its sexual conduct. This image of Blacks as a sexually liberated people has inculcated in the public …
The Matricentric Family System: A Cross-Cultural Examination
This paper reports on the matricentric family system as it appears in three different societies: the Caribbean, the Nayar of India and Afro-American families in the United States. The author's purpose is to show the variations in female-centered families by studying their nature and functions among different groups in diverse parts of the world. A suggestion for more conceptual clarity of the matricentric family concept is posed in order to provi…
Race and Ideology: An Essay in Black Sociology
Male‐female sexual variations: Functions of biology or culture
Male-female disparities in sexual attitudes and behavior are so obvious, and pervade all strata of the society, that it would be easy to assume that this is the natural order of things. Howeverv any historical or cross-cultural analysis would challenge many notions concerning innate difference among males and females in sexual attitudesv desire or behavior. From both an historical and cross-cultural perspective, societies and epochs may vary grea…
Public Policy and the Changing Status of Black Families
The Black Family in Evolutionary Perspective
(1974). The Black Family in Evolutionary Perspective. The Black Scholar: Vol. 5, The Black Family, pp. 2-9
The Black Woman in America
White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race
To Be Young, Black and Oppressed
Introduction to Black sociology
Race and Colonialism: The Domestic Case in Theory and Practice
the post-slavery years various theoretical perspectives have competed as an explanation of the status of Afro-Americans in the United States. Until the last ten years those theories were all in the range of biological determinism to racial equality through assimilation. While Pan -African is m took hold as a social movement during certain early periods, it never fitted into the mainstream of scholarly thought about the condition or fate of AfroAm…
Children of Conflict: A Study of Interracial Sex and Marriage
TheBlackScholar forum a Symposium on Roots
The Black family: Essays and Studies
Masculinity and Race: The Dual Dilemma of Black Men
This article delineates the special status of black men in contemporary society. First, considering some of the common stereotypes of black men from a historical perspective, alternative explanations are posited to counter prevailing views of the Afro‐American male as emasculated, dominated by women, and lacking in positive self‐esteem. The socialization process and problems of black youth are examined. Afterwards the special roles of lover, husb…
Land of Promise, Cities of Despair: Blacks in Urban America
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