Dr. Saida Grundy Featured in ‘The Brink’ Article
Dr. Saida Grundy, professor of African American Studies and Sociology, was recently featured in an article by The Brink, BU Sociologist Saida Grundy on “Respectability Politics” and the Morehouse Man. In conversation with Sara Rimer, Dr. Grundy discusses her new book, Respectable, which explores the making of Black male elites at Morehouse College.
“The best men I know went to Morehouse and the worst men I know went to Morehouse. This conflict is chief of all the paradoxes you will read about in these pages. It is a feeling akin to how the great James Baldwin described his relationship to America—that he loved this country and therefore reserved the right to be fiercely critical of it. Black people know the America that America does not want to know, and I love the Morehouse College that Morehouse College does not love. All the queerness and working classness that slurs together like a southwest Atlanta accent are the parts of Blackness that are too easily clipped off the brochure image advertised by their version of Morehouse manhood.” —Saida Grundy
Read the article on The Brink’s website.