Matt Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 162735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6493-6209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 99 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 569 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 98 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Cultural Resource Management: Conflict, Controversy and Cooperation
The historic environment has once again become embroiled in a controversy about heritage. In Isreal, the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee has recently put forward a bill to establish
The ‘posthumous Bauman: ’ A Review Essay
The year 2023 saw six new books by, and about, Zygmunt Bauman published. Six years after his death, these texts were part of an emerging body of literature we may call the ‘posthumous Bauman.’ I explore the key lessons this literature has offered and suggest there are four key themes: our increased knowledge about Bauman's life and its link, or not, to his sociology; the role of the hinterland for the sociologist; the increased interest in Bauman…
Rereading the Classics after the Decolonial and Feminist Critiques
This article considers the impact of the decolonial and feminist critiques of the classics in sociology. These encourage a ‘reconstructionist’ view of the canon in which previously marginalised voices are engaged alongside those already consecrated in a dialogical process of reassessment. While supporting this process, I highlight three potential pitfalls. The first is demographic essentialism, where contemporary debates and concerns are read bac…
Notes Critiques
Rich Durkheim: Comments on The Oxford Handbook of Émile Durkheim Matt Dawson Émile Durkheim, Sociologie Politique ; Une anthologie . Textes choisis par Florence Hulak en collaboration avec Yves Sintomer, édités et introduits par Florence Hulak. Postface d'Yves Sintomer, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2020, 479p. Compte rendu par Dimitris Foufoulas
Marxism on Musk: Reflections on Baum et al ’s ‘Twenty-First Century Alienation and Health’
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Contesting the Marginal Man Trope: Reflections on Jaworski’s Erving Goffman and the Cold War
At one point in Gary Jaworski’s important study Erving Goffman and the Cold War he criticizes the “marginal man trope” surrounding Goffman; the notion of him as a scholar unconnected to his time and place. In this review essay I adopt this term more broadly as a means of highlighting the book’s contribution. This can be seen positively in how it draws our attention to the three factors of cold war experience, culture and Goffman’s “natural metaph…
G.D.H. Cole and British Sociology: A Study in Semi-Alienation
Matt Dawson has done a brilliant job of recovering the virtually forgotten sociological work of G
Red Mitten Nationalism: Sport, Commercialism, and Settler Colonialism in Canada by Estée Fresco (review)
Reviewed by: Red Mitten Nationalism: Sport, Commercialism, and Settler Colonialism in Canada by Estée Fresco Michael Dawson Fresco, Estée – Red Mitten Nationalism: Sport, Commercialism, and Settler Colonialism in Canada. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. 240 p. In 1988, at the age of 16, I made a point of only purchasing gasoline at Petro-Canada or Shell stations. There were plenty of other options, of course, but, as …
A Sociologist in the Lords: The Parliamentary Career of Anthony Giddens
This paper considers the parliamentary career of Anthony Giddens, perhaps the most significant contemporary case of a sociologist achieving political office. Despite this, Giddens’ contributions to the House of Lords have been ignored by sociologists who are largely critical of his later political work. Drawing upon literature from the sociology of intellectuals, most notably positioning theory, I seek to understand Giddens’ unique positioning as…
‘An Army of Civil Servants’: Max Weber and Émile Durkheim on Socialism
Bureaucracy is therefore an inevitable result of any modern economy, since the advances of technology and business methods make it ‘completely indispensable’. Officials and workers must increasingly face professional examinations and limit their activity to specific tasks. Durkheim is much more systematic and consistent in his evaluation of socialism. Socialism however is modern. Rather than wishing to suppress economic concerns, socialism ‘deman…
The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies
The iron cage of efficiency: Analytics, basketball and the logic of modernity
Analytics, the application of advanced statistics to sport, has become increasingly prominent. This paper will focus on their application in basketball. I will argue that the introduction of analytics is an attempt to expand the logic of modernity into sport, an area which, for Elias, its demands had historically been temporarily suspended. Instead we can see some of the key tenets of analytics – which I will explore via reference to The Mid-Rang…
Stretching the Double Hermeneutic: A Critical Examination of Lay Meanings of 'Emotional Labour
This article explores how the concept of emotional labour has moved from sociological into lay discourse as a case study of the double hermeneutic and concept creep, demonstrating the effect sociological concepts can have on lay actors' understanding of their everyday lives. From an analysis of 41 news and magazine articles about emotional labour, we identify the various meanings the term carries as well as the ideologies and logics that underpin…
Durkheim and the possible connections between social theory and colonialism
In this piece I explore how Bhambra and Holmwood's Colonialism and Modern Social Theory implies three different questions that can be asked concerning the connections between colonialism and social theory. With reference to their discussion of Durkheim, I suggest the answers they offer to these possible questions return us to what Kurasawa termed the 'constitutive paradox' of Durkheim's relation to colonialism, namely a mix of political acceptanc…
Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River
Co-production across scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems has become a cornerstone of research to enhance knowledge, practice, ethics, and foster sustainability transformations. However, the profound differences in world views and the complex and contested histories of nation-state colonisation on Indigenous territories, highlight both opportunities and risks for Indigenous people when engaging with knowledge co-production. This paper inve…
Whiteness, Judaism and the challenge of the postcolonial critique: A response to Rattansi
No abstract available
Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives: Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options
The war against forgetfulness: Sociological lessons from Bauman’s writings on European Jewry
This paper argues against assigning Zygmunt Bauman to the category of a ‘white’, ‘European’ theorist and the tendency to speak of an undifferentiated ‘Eurocentrism’. To argue this, I return to a set of articles by Bauman which reflected on the history of European Jewry. These encourage us to place Bauman in a historical and social context in which he is best identified as emerging from the racialized and classed politics of East European Jewry. B…
Will B. Mackintosh, Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture
Survey Article: Articulated Darkness: White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism in Shelby’s Dark Ghettos
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence. James Baldwin2 Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos renews the call for ghetto abolitionism, and offers a radical critique of the way in which the black urban poor are governed. It makes three important contributions. First, it revives a tradition that regards the existence of ghettos as the result of systemic injustices in contemporary US society. Shelby argues that “dark ghettos” are the produ…
Chocolate cities: A brief note from a race and capitalism perspective
Marcus Hunter and Zandria Robinson have provided us with an innovative methodology for analysing "maps" of African Americans' lived political, social and cultural experiences past and present. Their powerful innovation is creating maps of the black experience based on black people's lived experience. They argue that carefully tracing spatially blacks' political, social and cultural patterns over time leads one to the conclusion that the shared ex…
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am: The Politics of Asexuality
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
Families and Relationships' e-Special Issue Introduction
This 'Families and Relationships' e-Special Issue contains a selection of 10 articles previously published in Sociology. In this Introduction, we first outline the broader sub-disciplinary context and explain our selection criteria. The increased popularity of families and relationships as a focus of sociological study is reflected in the dominance of articles published in the 1990s and later. Our selection highlights the following developments w…
Revisiting Freud as a Social Theorist - but Which 'Freud
No abstract available
Globalization, the Racial Divide, and a New Citizenship
Neighborhood Poverty and African American Politics
William Wilson and other scholars argue that one of the attributes of devastated neighborhoods is social isolation. We shall explore whether neighborhoods that seem to indicate significant social isolation also foster political isolation. We begin our examination by providing a description of the poor in the samples from the 1989 Detroit Area Study. We then turn our attention toward analyzing the effects of neighborhood poverty on African-America…
A Schema-Based Approach to Modeling an African-American Racial Belief System
We use a cognitive schema-based approach to model an African-American racial belief system, showing the content of racial belief systems in a national sample to be associated with the individual's degree of sodoeconomic status, religiosity, and exposure to black media. We find that African-Americans with a higher sodoeconomic status are less supportive of black political autonomy and that they feel themselves more distant from black masses and bl…
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crises and the Racial Order
In the wake of increasing racial violence, new black movements have focused on questions of criminal justice. Yet some have argued that we need to focus more intensely on the deep economic inequality that particularly plagues black communities. The urgency of this issue is heightened by a pervasive sense within black communities of perpetual and rapidly escalating crisis. One way to reframe the question is, what is the relationship between race a…
Reparations: Justice and Greed in Black and White
Proponents and opponents of reparations for Blacks vociferously disagree. Conservative opponents argue that reparations for Black slavery are a disastrous idea and that proponents are motivated by either greed or the desire to do harm to the republic. Liberal and left opponents of reparations argue that the advocacy on this issue will lead to great racial divisions and do potentially irreparable harm to progressive movements. Supporters of repara…
A Black Counterpublic: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics
Research Article| January 01 1994 A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics Michael C. Dawson Michael C. Dawson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 195–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-1-195 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael C. Dawson; A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquak…
Stories of Non-Becoming: Non-Issues, Non-Events and Non-Identities in Asexual Lives
In contrast to conventional models of positively 'becoming' an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of 'non-becoming,' whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-…
Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order
This article examines how the racial order in the United States has evolved since the Jim Crow era. Two leading characterizations of the current situation are that we live in a postracial society and that we live in an era best described as the New Jim Crow. We probe the key differences between the Jim Crow racial order and the racial terrain of the current period and come to the conclusion that both claims are inadequate because they are tied to…
Negotiating the Boundaries of Intimacy: The Personal Lives of Asexual People
This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achiev…
One Year Later and the Myth of a Post-Racial Society
Many commentators, both conservative and liberal, have celebrated the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, claiming the election signified America has truly become a "post-racial" society. It is not just Lou Dobbs who argues the United States in the "21st century [is a] post-partisan, post-racial society." This view is consistent with beliefs the majority of White Americans have held for well over a decade: that African Ame…
A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency
Has Barack Obama's success transformed the racial divide? Did he somehow transcend or help bring to an end centuries of racial division in the United States? Did he deliberately run a strategically race-neutral, race-evading campaign? Did his race and ingrained American racism constrain the reach of his success? Have we arrived at that postracial moment that has long been the stuff of dreams and high oratory? Or was the outcome of the 2008 presid…
Optimism and agency in the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman's sociology has often been seen as a bleak worldview; he has been called the 'sociologist of misery'. This article argues that assigning pessimism and misery to Bauman's work relies on a reading which does not fully consider his sociology of morality. When this is accounted for, Bauman can be seen to have a very optimistic worldview. The significance of such an observation rests on where Bauman's optimism lies-namely in the hands o…
After the Deluge: Publics and Publicity in Katrina's Wake
I want to start with a story from the period of chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina. I am going to present some data as an entry into a brief discussion of how different publics evaluated the disaster, and the implications for how we think about civil society in the United States
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am: The Politics of Asexuality
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
Bauman, Beck, Giddens and our understanding of politics in late modernity
This article considers the political sociology of three prominent thinkers who describe a phase of ‘late modernity’: Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. It is argued in the case of Giddens and Beck that these ideas are faulty since they do not provide full conceptual space for agency, which they argue in their sociological work is central to understanding late modernity. Bauman's work does not suffer this problem. Nevertheless, his p…
Social Theory for Alternative Societies
"This book traces a unique story of social theory: one which focuses on its role in offering ideas for alternative societies. In charting this story, Matt Dawson argues that the differences in alternatives offered by social theorists not only demonstrate the diversity in, and value of, sociological perspectives, but also emphasize competing ideas of the role of intellectuals in social change. The text discusses a collection of social theorists -f…
Racial Tragedies, Political Hope, and the Tasks of American Political Science
The Trayvon Martin tragedy, the optimistic spectacle of the election and inauguration of Barack Obama during late 2008 and early 2009, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina seemingly represent three very different events with little in common except the claim made by some that all were in some way related to racial politics in the US. Many would consider such a claim weak, noting each event's unique scale and relationship to the politics of race…
The Quiet Before the Storm
Elections matter. This is perhaps especially true in times of deepening inequality and cultural polarization. Commentators on both sides of the political aisle were in unison on two points: the 2004 presidential election was the most important such contest in a century, and the U.S. electorate has never seemed so sharply divided. The intensity of feeling around the Bush-Kerry contest has solidified in the national consciousness a well understood …
Survey Article: Articulated Darkness: White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism in Shelby’s Dark Ghettos
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence. James Baldwin2 Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos renews the call for ghetto abolitionism, and offers a radical critique of the way in which the black urban poor are governed. It makes three important contributions. First, it revives a tradition that regards the existence of ghettos as the result of systemic injustices in contemporary US society. Shelby argues that “dark ghettos” are the produ…
The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research and Public Life, 1930-1945
The hollow shell: Loïc Wacquant's vision of state, race and economics
Wacquant's 'Marginality, Ethnicity and Penality in the Neo-liberal City' makes important contributions to our understanding of the role of state in shaping patterns of racial domination under neo-liberal regimes. As important as his contributions are, however, two major flaws in his conceptual framework undermine the utility of his approach for either scholarly analysis or political intervention. First, Wacquant systematically and incorrectly dow…
Immigration: Crossing Borders and Crosses to Bear
There is a deep irony about the current political moment. Though having an immigrant background is arguably a core feature of how most Americans understand themselves, the topic of immigration has in recent years risen to a fever pitch of political controversy and polarized views. Of course, the immigrant streams to the United States today differ substantially from those that characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Instea…
Durkheim and the possible connections between social theory and colonialism
In this piece I explore how Bhambra and Holmwood's Colonialism and Modern Social Theory implies three different questions that can be asked concerning the connections between colonialism and social theory. With reference to their discussion of Durkheim, I suggest the answers they offer to these possible questions return us to what Kurasawa termed the 'constitutive paradox' of Durkheim's relation to colonialism, namely a mix of political acceptanc…
Families and Relationships' e-Special Issue Introduction
This 'Families and Relationships' e-Special Issue contains a selection of 10 articles previously published in Sociology. In this Introduction, we first outline the broader sub-disciplinary context and explain our selection criteria. The increased popularity of families and relationships as a focus of sociological study is reflected in the dominance of articles published in the 1990s and later. Our selection highlights the following developments w…
Still Walking the Tightrope
This issue of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race is dedicated to the living memory and many contributions of distinguished historian John Hope Franklin. Writing in his autobiography Mirror to America, Franklin said that
Liberalism in Devon and Cornwall, 1910–1931: The Old-Time Religion
Liberalism in Devon and Cornwall before 1914 pursued a traditional ‘democratic’ rhetoric based on a class division which associated the Liberal party with ‘the people’ and Unionism with a privileged aristocracy. The ‘new Liberalism’ and social reform were unimportant. In the 1920s, the Gladstonian trinity of peace, retrenchment and free trade comprised easily the most common theme in Liberal candidates’ speeches. The Gladstonian tradition remaine…
The Myth of the Great U-Turn
Review of The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America by Bennet Harrison and Barry Bluestone.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
A Schema-Based Approach to Modeling an African-American Racial Belief System
We use a cognitive schema-based approach to model an African-American racial belief system, showing the content of racial belief systems in a national sample to be associated with the individual's degree of sodoeconomic status, religiosity, and exposure to black media. We find that African-Americans with a higher sodoeconomic status are less supportive of black political autonomy and that they feel themselves more distant from black masses and bl…
Revamping the Sociology of Class: A Note on So and Hikam's Proposal
The discussion of within sociology has certainly reached a crisis point. As wealth and power have continued to polarize on a national and global scale over the past decade, the gulf between the realities of and sociologists' ability to rationally understand these realities has grown to truly gaping proportions. The most influential debate on within the field, centered on the structuralist Marxist attempt to explain the dynamics of by producing in…
The Liberal Land Policy, 1924–1929: Electoral Strategy and Internal Division
The Liberal Land Policy, 1924–1929: Electoral Strategy and Internal Division Get access MICHAEL DAWSON MICHAEL DAWSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 2, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 272–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/2.3.272 Published: 01 January 1991
The Tendency of the Surplus to Rise, 1963–1988
In the increasingly universal monopoly-capitalist economy and culture of the late twentieth century, people no longer need what they want or want what they need. Wants are artificially manufactured while the most desperate needs of innumerable individuals remain unfulfilled. Although labor productivity has steadily risen, the overall efficiency and rationality of society has in many ways declined. Indeed, it is almost impossible to arrive at any …
Money and the real impact of the Fourth Reform Act
The real significance ofthe Representation of the People Act, 1918, for the Liberal and Labour parties lay in its mundane and little discussed financial provisions, not in its extension of the franchise. Despite the electoral reforms of 1883–5, election contests before 1914 were still expensive enough effectively to exclude the Labour party from politics outside the industrial centres. In 1918 the politicians of the older parties took the opportu…
Neighborhood Poverty and African American Politics
William Wilson and other scholars argue that one of the attributes of devastated neighborhoods is social isolation. We shall explore whether neighborhoods that seem to indicate significant social isolation also foster political isolation. We begin our examination by providing a description of the poor in the samples from the 1989 Detroit Area Study. We then turn our attention toward analyzing the effects of neighborhood poverty on African-America…
A Black Counterpublic: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics
Research Article| January 01 1994 A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics Michael C. Dawson Michael C. Dawson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 195–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-1-195 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael C. Dawson; A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquak…
Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics
Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics. Why have African Americans remained so united in most of their political attitudes? To account for this phenomenon, Dawson develops a new theo…
Program Committee
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Liberalism in Devon and Cornwall, 1910–1931: The Old-Time Religion
Liberalism in Devon and Cornwall before 1914 pursued a traditional ‘democratic’ rhetoric based on a class division which associated the Liberal party with ‘the people’ and Unionism with a privileged aristocracy. The ‘new Liberalism’ and social reform were unimportant. In the 1920s, the Gladstonian trinity of peace, retrenchment and free trade comprised easily the most common theme in Liberal candidates’ speeches. The Gladstonian tradition remaine…
Virtual Capitalism: The Political Economy of the Information Highway
One of the great technological myths of our time is that the entire system of organized capitalism dating back to the Industrial Revolution (and even earlier), is being displaced by a new age of "the electronic republic" rooted in the technology of the Information Revolution.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Mon…
The Secretary of Utopia
Review of The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism by Robert B. Reich.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Black Power in 1996 and the Demonization of African Americans
The cry of “Black Power” shook American society three decades ago. “Black Power” was a slogan that energized a generation of young African Americans, troubled their elders such as Dr. King (who agreed with many of the goals, but saw the slogan itself as divisive), and appalled the great majority of whites. As seriously as the slogan divided blacks, the intra-racial gap was small compared to the inter-racial gap as Aberbach and Walker documented i…
Committees of the American Political Science Association
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The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research and Public Life, 1930-1945
From ‘Business as Usual’ to ‘Salesmanship in Reverse’: Tourism Promotion in British Columbia during the Second World War
‘Isms’ are under a cloud these days, but one ‘Ism’ continues to be popular, namely Tourism. 'Tourism: A British Columbia Industry
Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African American Political Ideologies
In this work, Michael C. Dawson brings us the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationship of black political thought to black political identity and behaviour. Combining an historical perspective with conceptual sophistication and empirical evidence, Dawson identifies which political ideologies are supported by blacks, then traces their historical roots and examines their effects on black public opinion, not only among intelle…
Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970
Boosterism and Early Tourism Promotion in British Columbia, 1890-1930 2. From the Investment to the Expenditure Imperative: Regional Cooperation and the Lessons of Modern Advertising, 1916-35 3. Entitlement, Idealism, and the Establishment of the British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, 1935-39 4. The Second World War and the Consolidation of the British Columbia Tourist Industry, 1939-50 5. Differentiation, Cultural Selection, and the Post-war…
The Reagan Legacy and the Racial Divide in the George W. Bush Era
Although this essay appears very close to the most consequential presidential election since 1980, it was written months before during the week that former President Ronald Reagan died. The great majority of the U.S. media praised Reagan without any critical reflection-calling him the greatest president of the twentieth century, the man who brought hope and optimism back to America, the president who united the people. As one commentator mentione…
Reparations: Justice and Greed in Black and White
Proponents and opponents of reparations for Blacks vociferously disagree. Conservative opponents argue that reparations for Black slavery are a disastrous idea and that proponents are motivated by either greed or the desire to do harm to the republic. Liberal and left opponents of reparations argue that the advocacy on this issue will lead to great racial divisions and do potentially irreparable harm to progressive movements. Supporters of repara…
Scholarship Above the Veil
W. E. B. Du Bois is a figure of legendary stature, with accomplishments that run from the purely academic to the profoundly political. In the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, we at once memorialize and aim to continuously re-energize one core strand of the great man's life work: namely, Du Bois's legacy as a producer and catalyst for critical scholarship on the global problem of race. As had no other social scientist of his genera…
Acting global, thinking local: ‘Liquid imperialism’ and the multiple meanings of the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games
Challenging earlier scholarship that has suggested that the Commonwealth Games contributed unproblematically to imperial and commonwealth unity, this article explores the multiple, and conflicting, contemporary local meanings of the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to emphasising the sporting and economic dimensions of the Games, the article introduces the concept of ‘liquid imperialism’ to highlight…
After the Storm: In the Wake of Katrina
By the time you read this issue of the Du Bois Review, it will be nearly a year after the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina swept the Gulf Coast and roiled the nation. While this issue does not concentrate on the disaster, (the next issue of the DBR will be devoted solely to research on the social, economic, and political ramifications of the Katrina disaster), the editors would be amiss if we did not comment on an event that once again expose…
The Quiet Before the Storm
Elections matter. This is perhaps especially true in times of deepening inequality and cultural polarization. Commentators on both sides of the political aisle were in unison on two points: the 2004 presidential election was the most important such contest in a century, and the U.S. electorate has never seemed so sharply divided. The intensity of feeling around the Bush-Kerry contest has solidified in the national consciousness a well understood …
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