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• W4244927341 abstract "Reviewed by: Tussle at the Top: The Over One Hundred Year Competition Between the Omegas and the Alphas by Vincent Windrow Judson L. Jeffries VINCENT WINDROW, Tussle at the Top: The Over One Hundred Year Competition Between the Omegas and the Alphas. Pennsauken, NJ: Bookbaby, 2018. 1 + 137 pp. ISBN 9781543949148. Windrow's Tussle at the Top is a worthy contribution to the growing body of scholarly literature on African American fraternities and sororities. A book that both scholars and laypersons will enjoy, Windrow's seven-chapter manuscript is required reading for anyone whose interest has ever been piqued by the mystique surrounding the five most popular Black collegiate fraternities—Alpha Phi Alpha, Iota Phi Theta, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, and Phi Beta Sigma. At less than 140 pages Tussle at the Top is a quick read. And although readers will learn interesting tidbits of information about each fraternity, credit is due to Windrow who recognized the importance of contextualizing the birth of Black Greek life, Alpha Phi Alpha and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, the focus of the book. The impetus for the work, according to the author, stems from the following: a) a passage in the book Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Eugene Robinson and b) a 1922 letter housed at Cornell University that expresses concern on the part of some within Alpha Phi Alpha about the emergence of the Omega Psi Phi, Fraternity, Inc., as a potential threat to the Alpha Phi Alpha throne. In the aforementioned passage in Disintegration, Robinson makes the declarative, yet subjective, statement, Omega Psi Phi is one of the two most prominent black fraternities; the other is Alpha Phi Alpha (p. 100). What Robinson based that on is left to the imagination of the reader. Moreover, the men of Kappa Alpha Psi might have something to say about that. Robinson did reveal, however, that his father, a University of Michigan graduate, was an Alpha Man, suggesting a degree of implicit bias. His reverence for the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., on the other hand, as already alluded to, goes unexplained. [End Page 85] Taken independently and/or in tandem, neither A nor B are compelling enough to suggest that the rivalry between the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and Alpha Phi Alpha was any more intense than that which may or may not have existed between the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and Kappa Alpha Psi. If any such rivalries did exist, they did so in the first half of the 20th century, when the numbers of Black male collegegoers were adversely impacted by both World War I and World War II, hence the available and qualified pool of Black men from which these fraternities could draw was not as robust. Of course, one must also consider the life circumstances, of the socioeconomic kind, that prevented many Black men from pursing a college education. Consequently, Black fraternities found themselves jockeying for pledgees in a way that was not necessary in later years. Nevertheless, anyone who suggests there still exists a rivalry between Alpha Phi Alpha and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and/or the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and any other fraternity should understand that said rivalries are of the one-sided variety, meaning they exist only in the minds of those who find merit in comparing themselves to the men who bleed Royal Purple and Old Gold. Whether or not the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., or Alpha Phi Alpha or any other fraternity is the best or Number 1, whatever that means, will be and can be debated for years, using whatever subjective criteria that best suits the writer. While good-natured and light-hearted discussions on this matter have occurred between friends, loved ones, acquaintances, and foes alike, what is beyond dispute is that of the five most popular Black fraternities founded on college campuses, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., has the distinction of being the most unique. This writer contends there is no fraternity around which swirls more mystique and intrigue and arouses more curiosity than the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. George Clinton's Atomic Dog..." @default.
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