The 'Image of Africa' in Africana Sociology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2370102
AutoresJames Manigault-Bryant (0009-0003-2520-8756, Williams College, autor de correspondencia), James A Manigault-Bryant (Williams College)
Año2014
Volumen40
Número2
Páginas203-215
Fecha de publicación2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920512451606
OpenAlexW2007339033
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas20

Africana Sociology' begins with a reappraisal of the 'image of Africa' in the form of sociology's theoretical narrative about modernity's spatial and temporal order. Early sociologists, like Auguste Comte and Lester Ward, conceived sociology as a secular discourse, although it transmitted Protestant values that reduced people of African descent to fetish objects. In the work of Charles H. Long, the 'image of Africa' appears in the African American religious imagination because it - more than the land in which Blacks were enslaved - authenticated their origins. In my appropriation of the concept, it is a semiotic device that, through its dialectical relationship with the 'image of involuntary presence', structures sociology's narrative form. Like in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, the image of Africa designates the American nation as a site of crisis, while imbuing Black subjectivity with a wider consciousness of modernity

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