The Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) is an American learned society dedicated to the advancement of scholarship by African American sociologists.
[1] Its official journal is Issues in Race & Society, which it publishes in a partnership with Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.
[3] It was established in 1970 as the Caucus of Black Sociologists (CBS) at that year's ASA meeting in Washington, D.C.[4] The CBS was influenced by both the women's liberation movement and opposition to the Vietnam War.
[5] In 1976, the CBS was incorporated as an independent organization, the Association of Black Sociologists.
[6] When it was founded in 1970, the ABS (then known as the CBS) had 76 members,[3] a number which had grown to 88 by 1979.