Eric S Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric S Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric S |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ideology and Oppression
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, originally published in 1861, is a seminal work that provides a profound and emotive account of an enslaved Black woman's struggle for freedom and self‐determination. This paper explores the role of ideology and representation in Jacobs's portrayal of Dr. Flint, the primary antagonist, through the lenses of Louis Althusser's and Jacques Lacan's theories. By analyzing the narrative techniques…
Not settled law
The emergence of the civil rights policy regime during the 1960s in the U.S. formalized the transition from the pre–civil rights era to the civil rights era. As we see in this paper, the subsequent post–civil rights era has been shaped by increasing challenges against principles of civil rights law, chiefly by political conservatives. Indeed, opponents have had significant success in undermining key parts of the civil rights policy regime. Conser…
Voice, Silence, and Self
Born Sinner, Fashioned Divine
This article explores how a community struggling to survive systemic marginalization may imagine a liberating future. Black scholars have pressed the realm of science fiction in efforts to interrogate how Black youth may construct a sense of worth from Afrodiasporic experiences to the world for a promising Black future. The Nashville Team of the Children's Defense Fund explores the relevance of Mark Dery's cultural criticism for young Black males…
The Global Middle Classes
The Black Professional Middle Class
Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation have produced historically powerful processes of what he terms "racialized class formation," resulting in a distinct (and internally differentiated) entity, not merely a…
Racialization in a ‘homogenous’ society? The case of Buraku people in Japan
This paper examines the puzzling status of Buraku people in Japan through the methodological prism of historical sociology. I develop a theoretical approach that emphasizes the concept of racialization to illuminate the historical and social construction of Buraku status. I propose this approach as a complementary alternative to prior analytic perspectives. Two major perspectives have dominated research on the status of Buraku people. First, an e…
Teaching Race at Historically White Colleges and Universities
In this article we outline the 'walls of whiteness' that make it difficult to teach the sociology of race and racism and make it difficult for students at historically white colleges and universities (HCWUs) to wrestle with these important issues. Most white students enter HWCUs surrounded by these walls - protecting them from attacks on white supremacy - that have multiple layers and therefore are even more difficult to penetrate; yet they must …
Du Bois and Diasporic Identity
Positioning Du Bois's arguments in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) within social theory enhances our understanding of the phenomenological dimensions of racial oppression and of how oppressed groups build on members' differences, as well as on what they share, to construct a cosmopolitan and richly textured community. Du Bois wrote Souls just at the beginning of the Great Migration but indicated that geographical dispersion would deepen racial sol…
Teaching Race at Historically White Colleges and Universities
In this article we outline the 'walls of whiteness' that make it difficult to teach the sociology of race and racism and make it difficult for students at historically white colleges and universities (HCWUs) to wrestle with these important issues. Most white students enter HWCUs surrounded by these walls - protecting them from attacks on white supremacy - that have multiple layers and therefore are even more difficult to penetrate; yet they must …
Du Bois and Diasporic Identity
Positioning Du Bois's arguments in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) within social theory enhances our understanding of the phenomenological dimensions of racial oppression and of how oppressed groups build on members' differences, as well as on what they share, to construct a cosmopolitan and richly textured community. Du Bois wrote Souls just at the beginning of the Great Migration but indicated that geographical dispersion would deepen racial sol…
The Global Middle Classes
Racialization in a ‘homogenous’ society? The case of Buraku people in Japan
This paper examines the puzzling status of Buraku people in Japan through the methodological prism of historical sociology. I develop a theoretical approach that emphasizes the concept of racialization to illuminate the historical and social construction of Buraku status. I propose this approach as a complementary alternative to prior analytic perspectives. Two major perspectives have dominated research on the status of Buraku people. First, an e…
Du Bois and Diasporic Identity
Positioning Du Bois's arguments in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) within social theory enhances our understanding of the phenomenological dimensions of racial oppression and of how oppressed groups build on members' differences, as well as on what they share, to construct a cosmopolitan and richly textured community. Du Bois wrote Souls just at the beginning of the Great Migration but indicated that geographical dispersion would deepen racial sol…
The Black Professional Middle Class
Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation have produced historically powerful processes of what he terms "racialized class formation," resulting in a distinct (and internally differentiated) entity, not merely a…
Racialization in a ‘homogenous’ society? The case of Buraku people in Japan
This paper examines the puzzling status of Buraku people in Japan through the methodological prism of historical sociology. I develop a theoretical approach that emphasizes the concept of racialization to illuminate the historical and social construction of Buraku status. I propose this approach as a complementary alternative to prior analytic perspectives. Two major perspectives have dominated research on the status of Buraku people. First, an e…
Teaching Race at Historically White Colleges and Universities
In this article we outline the 'walls of whiteness' that make it difficult to teach the sociology of race and racism and make it difficult for students at historically white colleges and universities (HCWUs) to wrestle with these important issues. Most white students enter HWCUs surrounded by these walls - protecting them from attacks on white supremacy - that have multiple layers and therefore are even more difficult to penetrate; yet they must …
The Global Middle Classes
Born Sinner, Fashioned Divine
This article explores how a community struggling to survive systemic marginalization may imagine a liberating future. Black scholars have pressed the realm of science fiction in efforts to interrogate how Black youth may construct a sense of worth from Afrodiasporic experiences to the world for a promising Black future. The Nashville Team of the Children's Defense Fund explores the relevance of Mark Dery's cultural criticism for young Black males…
Voice, Silence, and Self
Not settled law
The emergence of the civil rights policy regime during the 1960s in the U.S. formalized the transition from the pre–civil rights era to the civil rights era. As we see in this paper, the subsequent post–civil rights era has been shaped by increasing challenges against principles of civil rights law, chiefly by political conservatives. Indeed, opponents have had significant success in undermining key parts of the civil rights policy regime. Conser…
Ideology and Oppression
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, originally published in 1861, is a seminal work that provides a profound and emotive account of an enslaved Black woman's struggle for freedom and self‐determination. This paper explores the role of ideology and representation in Jacobs's portrayal of Dr. Flint, the primary antagonist, through the lenses of Louis Althusser's and Jacques Lacan's theories. By analyzing the narrative techniques…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works)