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Our Mission

Our mission is to build a tradition of scholarship and service, informed by the interests of historically oppressed groups in general and Black/African American people in particular.

Leadership

The Association of Black Sociologists is committed to cultivating the next generation of social science leaders within the organization and in the public sphere. Meet our current leadership team.

Committees

This is your organization. Lend your talents and get involved in committee service, from Nominations to Social Policy.

About the association

The Association of Black Sociologists is committed to research,
teaching, mentoring, service, and social justice.

Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols

February 15, 2023 The Executive Committee of the Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) has been following the senseless public lynching of Tyre Nichols and subsequent decisions

Annual Conference

The 53rd Annual Conference: Philadelphia, PA | August 17-19, 2023

what we do

Cultivate and distribute critical Black social scientific perspectives on the social world
Provide one-of-a-kind, multigenerational mentoring networks for Black/minority sociologists at all career stages
Advocate for the professional and civil rights of Black/minority sociologists

Join the Association of Black Sociologists

Your membership supports a collective of black social scientists reframing the way we approach social problems, professional life, and social justice.

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Membership gives you access to the organization’s newsletter, discounts on conference registration, access to mentoring networks, and a supportive community of scholars at multiple intersections of Black life.

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ABS strives to maintain and cultivate a prophetic tradition of research, teaching, and scholarship that will catalyze equitable societal transformation locally, nationally, and globally.

ABS QUOTABLES

It has always been my belief that sociologists should not be completely sanguine with the production of larger cores of knowledge. Rather, sociologists should take aggressive leadership in demonstrating how that knowledge can more effectively be utilized for the greater social good.

James E. Blackwell

First ABS President

Black sociology must become more political than mainstream sociology has been. Black sociology must…develop theories which assume the basic posture of eliminating racism and systematic class oppression from the society.

Joyce Ladner

civil rights activist and author, The Death of White Sociology

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