Black Male Deviance

Asks the question, how have Black males been produced as deviants in U.S. society.

In this text, the author questions whether academic studies of black men have contributed to the social perception of black men as deviants, and how the black community has responded to this. Directed towards sociologists, it includes chapters on criminality, colonialism and theories of deviance.

Many studies of Black men have been and will be produced, but most have approached the subject from angles other than a position of scholarship that explores how Black men have come to be socially produced as deviants, and asks how have persons in academe participated in the production of these perceived deviants, and how has the Black community responded to this social construct of a role. This work is directed toward sociologists and those who are interested in the study of the Black community.