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African American pioneers of sociology : a critical history / Pierre Saint-Arnaud ; translated by Peter Feldstein.
LIBRA HM477.U6 S2513 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saint-Arnaud, Pierre.
- Standardized Title:
- Invention de la sociologie noire aux États-Unis d'Amérique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--United States--History.
- Sociology.
- African American sociologists.
- History.
- United States.
- African American sociologists--History.
- African American sociologists--Biography.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 381 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Du Bois, Frazier, Cox, and the other scholars examined in this book carried the burden of institutional racism throughout their lives. At the same time, with each of their works, they brought forward an entirely different representation of their true place in social science and society alike. Of course, there was no way for them to break down all the barriers of racial discrimination, but their constructive resistance to it was crucial to what scientific success they had. By refusing to internalize the degrading image of the black minority embodied in the dominant white model, by refusing to apply the stereotyping language of the Other to themselves, they succeeded in the task of inventing an original African American sociology. From African American Pioneers of Sociology
- Contents:
- Part 1 Anglo-American Sociology and the Race Question 13
- 1 From the Civil War to the First World War 15
- Sociological Theories of Race 22
- From Biological Racism to Cultural Racism 36
- From Race Problem to Race Relations 40
- 2 The Rise of the Chicago School 45
- Origins of a Scientific Hothouse: 1892-1914 47
- The Parkian Era 49
- Park's Theory of Race Relations 54
- Alternative Positions in the Interwar Period 76
- Park versus Warner: The Outcome of a Dispute 82
- 3 From the Second World War to the 1960s 85
- The Sociopolitical Landscape 85
- Race Relations after the War 88
- An American Dilemma 90
- Scholarly Reactions to Myrdal 103
- Part 2 The Genesis of African American Sociology, 1896-1964 117
- 4 W.E.B. Du Bois: Scientific Sociology and Exclusion 121
- Early Works 125
- The Philadelphia Negro 131
- Sources of Du Bois's Innovation 140
- The Institution Builder 144
- Controversy and Decline 148
- A Limited Scientific Legacy 151
- The Sociologist in His Time 154
- 5 Four 'New Negroes' 157
- Johnson: The Activist as Organization Man 157
- Cayton and Drake: Theorists of the Ghetto 167
- Cox: Innovator and Iconoclast 186
- 6 Edward Franklin Frazier 204
- The Committed Intellectual 208
- The Emergence of a Social Scientist 212
- Toward a More Radical Approach 216
- The Poverty and Greatness of the Black Middle Class 225
- For a Comparative World Sociology 231
- The Importance of Theory 234
- Frazier's Originality 246
- Part 3 From Explanation to Comprehension 249
- Two Sociologies, One Society 250
- Breaking Down the Barriers: Racism in Academia 271
- The Solace of Culture 285
- Postface: Imagining a Different History 295.
- Notes:
- Translation of: L'invention de la sociologie noire aux États-Unis d'Amérique.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802091222
- 0802091229
- 9780802094056
- 0802094058
- OCLC:
- 244313106
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