Publications

BOOKS

Sewell, Said. (Forward) Effective Leadership at Minority-Service Institutions: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Leadership, New York: Routledge, 2018.

Harris, Jessica, and Sewell, Said. (Chap 3), “Faith and Fraternalism: A History,” Gregory Parks, ed.  African-American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.

Sewell, Said, and Ayuk, A., eds. We the People: Reflections on American Politics, New York: Pearson and Longman Publishing, 2006.

Sewell, Said, and F. Carl Walton. Georgia State Politics, New York: Pearson and Longman Publishing,2006

Sewell, Said, ed. Conflicting Democracy: A Critical Analysis of America’s Political Process, Mason: Thomson Custom Publishing, 2004.

Sewell, Said. A Quanitative Analysis of Black Baptist Pastors Efforts and Actions toward Community Development in a Large Southern City (Atlanta). Dissertation, 2000.

Sewell, Said. Empowering Black Males Students to Greatness. (Forthcoming)

Sewell, Said, ed. Let Us Make Man: A Conversation with Black Men on Saving Black Boys. (Forthcoming)

REFEREED ARTICLES AND ENTRIES (selected)

Haywood, Jerry, and Sewell, Said. “Bridging the Retention Gap: Understanding the Challenges and Impact of Unprepared Minority Male Students Transitioning into College,” The Quest: Journal of Higher Education Excellence, Fall/Winter 2018(online journal without pagination).

Haywood, J. L., & Sewell, S., “Against all odds: Academic success of Black male student on PWI campuses,” Race, Gender, & Class, vol 23, 2016. (109-128).

Haywood, Jerry, and Sewell, Said.  “Why are all the African-American Males 

 Leaving our Institutions? Beyond Developing another Program,” The Quest: Journal of Higher Education Excellence, Fall/Winter 2013-2014, vol 2, issue 3, (26-41). 

Sewell, Said. “Faith-based Initiative and Black Churches: Relationships in a Small City,” Journal of Southern Rural Sociology, vol. 19, no 2, 2003 (176-203).

Sewell, Said. “Analysis of the Contextual Variables of Black Baptist Churches on their Pastors’ Level of Community Participation in an Urban City,” Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, vol 9, no. 1, summer 2003

(77-94).

Sewell, Said. “Lead Me. Guide Me. Along the Way: Are Personal Characteristics of Pastors Associated with their Level of Community Participation?” The North Star: Journal of African American Religious History, 2003, vol 7, no. 1 (online journal without pagination). https://www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/northstar/volume7/sewell.html

Sewell, Said. “African American Religion: The Struggle for Community Development in a Southern City,” The Journal of Southern Religion  2001, vol. 4 (online journal without pagination). http://jsr.as.wvu.edu/2001/jsrlink4.htm

Sewell, Said. (Book Review) Newman, Mark. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and the Civil  Rights Movement in Mississippi. 2003. Reviewed in Journal of Southern Religion (online journal without pagination). 2003, http://jsr.fsu.edu/Volume7/Sewell.htm

Sewell, Said. (Book Review) Baldwin, Lewis, The Legacy of Martin Luther King: The Boundaries of  Law, Politics and Religion. 2002. Reviewed in The National Political Science Review, 2005 (76-78)

Sewell, Said. “Bayard Rustin.” Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics. Paul Djupe and Laura Olson, editors. New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003: (395-396)

Sewell, Said. “The Rainbow Coalition.” Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics. Paul Djupe and Laura Olson, editors. New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003: (352-353)

Sewell, Said. (Book Review) Lincoln, C. Eric and Mamiya, Lawrence, 1990. The Black Church and the African-American Experience, Reviewed in Endarch, 1999: (62-66)