Steven Randolph Cureton is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Dr. Cureton has authored four books: Racial Reconciliation: Black Masculinity, Societal Indifference and Church Socialization; The Social Construction of Black Masculinity: An Ethnographic Study; Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War; and Hoover Crips: When Cripin' Becomes a Way of Life.