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Bart
Landry
Professor
Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1971
Office:
3141 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6416
Email: blandry@socy.umd.edu
Departmental
Specialty Areas:
Stratification; Gender, Work and Family
 My
current research interests center on the impact
of the New Economy and technology on inequality
and class stratification in the U. S. and Brazil.
In the U.S. this has taken the shape of a qualitative
study of software startups in the Baltimore/DC
metropolitan area. With the collaboration
of graduate students, founders, managers, and
programmers have been interviewed in 34 software
firms. My focus in Brazil is the development
of software entrepreneurship through a network
of technology incubators, and has included interviews
in three cities and 17 software firms both in
and out of incubators.
 Most
of my earlier research has been at the intersection
of stratification, race, and gender. My most recent
book, Race, Gender, and Class: Theory and Methods
of Analysis, adds to the literature on Intersectional
Analysis by offering a methodology for its use
in qualitative and quantitative research and a
text for instructors of Race, Gender, and Class
in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses.
In Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American
Family Revolution I explore the impact of
middle-class ideologies of black and white womanhood
on the development of family systems in the United
States. The “cult of domesticity”
or “true womanhood” originated in
mid-19th century within the white middle class
and gave rise to what became known as the traditional
family. In contrast to this, I show how black
middle-class wives rejected the cult of domesticity
for a three-fold commitment to family, career,
and community. By claiming the right
to combine career with marriage, out of choice
rather than out of need, in late 19th and early
20th century, they forged a competing ideology
of womanhood and pioneered today’s dual-earner
family.
 My earlier book on The New Black Middle Class
traced the emergence of an African American middle
class in early 20th century and compared its economic
position with that of the white middle class in
the 1970s and 1980s. A revised edition is being
prepared with updates to 2006.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology 661: Social Stratification
Sociology 682: Theorizing
Race, Gender, and Class: A New Paradigm for Social
Research
Sociology 699G: Sociology
of the New Economy
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