Sandra Lynn Barnes
Sandra Lynn Barnes
SANDRA LYNN BARNES is the C.V. Starr Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Brown University. Her previous books include Kings of Mississippi: Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South (with Benita Blanford-Jones); Empowering Black Youth of Promise: Education and Socialization in the Village-minded Black Church (with Anne Streaty-Wimberly); Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age (coedited with Zandria F. Robinson and Earl Wright II); and Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology.