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Yes, I've read many of the essays in this book. The positive aspect of this oeuvre is that it is a serious, scholarly work which takes the role of BGLOs as a sociocultural phenemenon seriously. The articles, by scholars in various fields delve into some common topics:the historical development of BGLOs in the context of the social history of the first two decades of the 20th century,etc. There is even a chapter by an anthropologist which came out of her dissertation on branding, which was largely drawn from my Que brothers. One think that I was disappointed in was that it didn't touch upon the sociolcultural tensions within black society that led to the founding of multiple fraternities and sororities. Too much has been made of BGLOs being founded as displacement activity due to exclusion from "white" groups. Most BGLOs were founded at HBCUs. I've always felt that this perspective was reflective of an "white Greek" ethnocentric worldview. "We" need to have an historical accounting of why BGLOs developed as a whole within the confines of black community of the time as a sociohistorical phenomenon. There was no essay on this. If you're expecting a Black Greek 101-type book, this is not it!
"Que Psi Phi 'til the day I die!"
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