1. Introduction to the Special Issue

   • John H. Stanfield

   OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 300

2. W.E.B. Du Bois and the women of hull-house, 1895–1899

   • Mary Jo Deegan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 311

3. The victim-bind dilemma of black female sociologists in academe

   • Gloria Jones-Johnson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 312 - 322

4. Are minority women sociologists in double jeopardy?

   • Stephen Kulis
   • Karen A. Miller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 339

5. A mexican American woman encounters sociology: An autobiographical perspective

   • Norma Williams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 340 - 346

6. From a committed achiever to a radical social scientist: The life course dialectics of a “Marginal” black american sociologist

   • Noël A. Cazenave

   OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 354

7. I never had a mentor: Reflections of a chicano sociologist

   • Alfredo Mirandé

   OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 362

8. Questions of assertion, diversity, and spirituality: Simultaneously becoming a minority and a sociologist

   • Z. G. Standing Bear

   OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 371

9. Marginality, credibility and impression management: The Asian sociologist in America

   • N. Prabha Unnithan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 372 - 377

10. Academic odyssey: The training of an African sociologist

    • Tekle M. Woldemikael

    OriginalPaper Pages: 378 - 384