What are the differences between black and white sororities?
First of all, I think it’s funny that both of them are called sororities because they’re entirely different things. In the black sororities they celebrate achievement academically and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that’s the case in their groups, it’s not really so. White sororities focus on relationships. They have ceremonies and songs and rituals celebrating relationship milestones, whereas the reward for getting the highest GPA in one house was a bag of potato chips. That’s a completely different atmosphere than the black sororities. They wiped out the pledge period in the 1990s, though there is still some hazing. But they don’t let you rush when you’re a first-semester freshman just getting to school and they don’t rush you until after you learn about the history and get to know the girls. And it’s not even a rush process. It’s an application. Do sororities significantly reshape these girls’ identities? Do you think that people
