A Meghji
Biographic Data
| ID | 37991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Meghji |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Meghji |
| SIGNATURE | MEGHJI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8311-3155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Studying race and racism – here, there, and everywhere
In this article, we reflect on the future of ethnic and racial studies within the discipline of sociology. We argue that theories in the sociology of race are currently marred by methodological nationalism, often treating racial structures, meanings, and ideologies as nationally bound phenomena. By contrast, we argue that the sociology of race ought to embrace a comparative-relational approach. We illustrate how this comparative-relational approa…
Revisitation and resurgence of the race-caste debate: Returning to the classical texts
In the early-mid 20th century, sociologists were interested in sketching out possible similarities between caste and race. Since then, this approach has both been defended and – more commonly – rejected. In this paper, I contend that critics of the race-caste approach have fundamentally misunderstood the central arguments of that said approach, often committing methodological errors in their criticisms. I contrast this approach to advocates of th…
Rethinking racism again? Assessing conceptual deadlocks and innovations in race theory
Through focusing on racial formation theory, systemic racism theory, and the racialized social systems approach, I argue that sociological race theories often reproduce methodological nationalism, stage-ism, and groupism. Such conceptual approaches often equate the boundaries of racial structures with the geographical borders of nation-states, racial categories are often presented as groups with cohesive racial interests, and there is a methodolo…
Introduction: Black Reconstruction After 90 Years
In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published one of the most important pieces of historical scholarship from the twentieth century, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. While the book has received significant discussion in disciplines such as Black studies, history, American studies, and political science, sociologists in general have b…
Situating Black Reconstruction in the Du Boisian Tradition
In this paper, I develop a contradictory argument about Black Reconstruction . First, I argue that Black Reconstruction certainly is a masterpiece, and indeed, perhaps one of Du Bois's greatest works. Second, however, I argue that we ought to view Black Reconstruction in the context of Du Bois's overall corpus of scholarship. “Singling out” Black Reconstruction on its own actually detracts from the contributions of the book itself. In particular,…
Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists
In this paper, I contend that classical Black sociologists—who received their doctorates in the late 19 th century–mid 20 th century—showed early signs of what is now termed as global historical sociology (GHS). Scholars such as W.E.B Du Bois, Franklin Frazier, Charles S Johnson, Allison Davis, and St Clair Drake formed a tradition of historical sociology—long before American sociology officially institutionalized comparative‐historical sociology…
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
In this editorial collection, five sociologists share their opinions on why there has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on Du Bois, and summarize their own position in relation to this intellectual area. Ranging from reflections on how they “discovered” Du Bois's works, through to assessments of American sociology's reception of Du Bois's scholarship, the idea of this brief piece is to provide an insight into some of the potential drivin…
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory
The conversation between Ali Meghji and Manuela Boatcă focuses on how modernity/coloniality may (or may not) be a productive sociological concept in the remit of global social theory and wider political movements. Speaking from within different locations in the imperial core (England and Germany respectively), we discuss how the concept of modernity/coloniality has traveled over to our respective European contexts, and the ways it has informed ou…
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire
In this paper, I focus on two thinkers who I contend can be read as Du Boisian sociologists: Franklin Frazier and John Gibbs St. Clair Drake. I argue that both Frazier and Drake are often (mis)represented as being ethnographic sociologists of racism in the American inner city who owe their intellectual training and lineage to the Chicago School. By contrast, I argue that Frazier and Drake, while interested in race in the American inner city, both…
Peace Is Dangerous: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of Colonial Post-fascism
This article asks: "How was the rhetoric of post or anti-fascism used to develop colonial projects in the inter and postwar period?" Through investigating the Du Bois archive, I answer this through producing a Du Boisian theory of colonial post-fascism. While many have written about the connections between European fascism and colonialism in theories of "colonial fascism," a Du Boisian approach leads us to the concept of colonial post-fascism, de…
From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory
This article develops an alternative vision of public sociology. Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, this article calls for a recognition of reverse tutelage in public sociology. Here, publics are seen as sociological interlocutors who can, and often do, produce sociological theories and analyses that can inform professional sociology. I demonstrate this reverse tutelage by focusing on antic…
Who's Afraid of Sociology
Theoretical synergy, global social theory, and the global colourline
In this paper, I offer a reply to the critics in this book symposium. I cover issues pertaining to the how and why of theoretical synergy, and how the project of synergy between critical race and decolonial theory might contribute to the wider project of global social theory and studying the global colourline
Sociologists as change agents? Thoughts on Lamont's Seeing Others
This essay argues that Lamont's Seeing Others constitutes both an example of, and call for, public sociology. Overviewing Lamont's approach to change agents and recognition chains, I question what role sociologists can play as change agents. This involves both a brief historical overview of Du Bois' approach to recognition and social research, before putting forward some methodological questions about how to instigate an "ordinary humanism" in on…
On Violence, Race, and Social Theory: Thinking with Wacquant and Du Bois
In this article, I offer an engagement with Wacquant's checkerboard of ethnoracial violence . Drawing on material from the digitalized W. E. B. Du Bois archive, I focus on two theses of Du Boisian thought that I believe can enrich Wacquant's theorization of ethnoracial violence. In particular, I highlight how Du Bois emphasized (1) the process by which colonial violence gets (mis)recognized as nonviolence; and (2) how ethnoracial violence connect…
How Outsiders Within Are Made: Structural Inequalities and the Making of Academic Outsiders
Dwelling in epistemic disobedience: A reply to Go
In Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory, Julian Go continues his vital work on rethinking and redirecting the discipline of sociology. Go’s piece relates to his wider oeuvre of postcolonial sociology – found in works such as his Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016) as well as multiple journal articles on epistemic exclusion (Go 2020), Southern theory (Go 2016), metrocentrism (Go 2014), and the history of sociolo…
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and Covid-19 in Britain
This article looks at the British government's handling of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. We argue that to analyse the government's handling of this situation, we need to synergize insights from critical race theory (CRT) with decolonial thought. CRT shows how the pandemic has revealed and exacerbated racial inequalities within Britain, while these inequalities are then explained away through a post-racial ideology. Contrastingly, de…
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain
This article argues for a theoretical synergy between critical race theory (CRT) and decolonial thought. The author propounds that while CRT and decolonial thought have different scopes, we can synergize them in analysis. Specifically, decolonial thought's transnational focus on coloniality complements CRT's 'presentist' focus on national racialized social systems. The author displays the efficacy of this theoretical synergy by discussing Brexit …
What can the sociology of race learn from the histories of anti-colonialism
This essay looks at three books on the histories of anti-colonialism: Desai’s the United States of India, Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire, and Gopal’s Insurgent Empire. I argue that despite it not being the authors’ primary focus, these books collectively push forward the sociology of race. In particular, each of these books shows the importance for contemporary race and racism scholarship to adopt a transnational, temporally connected approa…
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From "BritCrit" to the racialized social system approach
Critical race theory is growing in popularity in Britain. However, critics and advocates of critical race theory (CRT) in Britain have neglected the racialized social system approach. Through ignoring this approach, critics have thus "missed the target" in their rebuttals of CRT, while advocates of CRT have downplayed the strength of critical race analysis. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that that through the racialized social system approac…
Black men in Britain: An ethnographic portrait of the post-Windrush generation
Contesting racism: How do the black middle-class use cultural consumption for anti-racism
Drawing on interviews with thirty-two black British professionals, and ethnographic work in middle-class cultural spaces across London, this paper asks ‘How do the black middle-class use cultural consumption for anti-racism?’ I argue that the black middle-class contest the racial hierarchy at three levels through their cultural consumption: the material, the ideological, and the symbolic. At the material level, black middle-class people consume c…
Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
Encoding and Decoding Black and White Cultural Capitals: Black Middle-Class Experiences
Drawing upon 23 qualitative interviews, and ethnographic work in London, this article explores how black middle-class individuals in the UK decode forms of middle-class cultural capital. This decoding is two staged. Firstly, black middle-class individuals often decode dominant or 'traditional' middle-class cultural capital as white. This involves a recognition that certain forms of middle-class cultural capital are marked as racially exclusive, a…
The colour of class: The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
The Colour of Class involves a study of the Black middle-class in Britain. With regards to methods, the research draws upon interviews with 62 Black Caribbean participants in middle-class occupatio
From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory
This article develops an alternative vision of public sociology. Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, this article calls for a recognition of reverse tutelage in public sociology. Here, publics are seen as sociological interlocutors who can, and often do, produce sociological theories and analyses that can inform professional sociology. I demonstrate this reverse tutelage by focusing on antic…
Positionings of the black middle-classes: Understanding Identity Construction Beyond Strategic Assimilation
This paper explores the identities of Britain's black middle-classes. Drawing upon interviews with seventy-two participants, I theorize a 'triangle of identity'. This triangle emphasizes how black middle-class identities are constructed within the dynamics of three poles. Firstly, there is the class-minded pole whereby class comes to the fore as a conceptual scheme; secondly, there is the ethnoracial autonomous pole whereby 'race' is central to o…
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain
This article argues for a theoretical synergy between critical race theory (CRT) and decolonial thought. The author propounds that while CRT and decolonial thought have different scopes, we can synergize them in analysis. Specifically, decolonial thought's transnational focus on coloniality complements CRT's 'presentist' focus on national racialized social systems. The author displays the efficacy of this theoretical synergy by discussing Brexit …
Encoding and Decoding Black and White Cultural Capitals: Black Middle-Class Experiences
Drawing upon 23 qualitative interviews, and ethnographic work in London, this article explores how black middle-class individuals in the UK decode forms of middle-class cultural capital. This decoding is two staged. Firstly, black middle-class individuals often decode dominant or 'traditional' middle-class cultural capital as white. This involves a recognition that certain forms of middle-class cultural capital are marked as racially exclusive, a…
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire
In this paper, I focus on two thinkers who I contend can be read as Du Boisian sociologists: Franklin Frazier and John Gibbs St. Clair Drake. I argue that both Frazier and Drake are often (mis)represented as being ethnographic sociologists of racism in the American inner city who owe their intellectual training and lineage to the Chicago School. By contrast, I argue that Frazier and Drake, while interested in race in the American inner city, both…
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From "BritCrit" to the racialized social system approach
Critical race theory is growing in popularity in Britain. However, critics and advocates of critical race theory (CRT) in Britain have neglected the racialized social system approach. Through ignoring this approach, critics have thus "missed the target" in their rebuttals of CRT, while advocates of CRT have downplayed the strength of critical race analysis. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that that through the racialized social system approac…
Rationalising Racial Inequality: Ideology, Hegemony and Post-Racialism among the Black and South Asian Middle-Classes
Drawing upon 38 qualitative interviews with Black and South Asian middle-class individuals we theorise post-racialism as a hegemonic ideology. While research tends to focus on how racialised people experience racial inequality, some of our participants rationalised such inequality through a post-racial understanding. This post-racial understanding involves commitments to racial progress and transcendence, the view that racism is no longer a socie…
Activating Controlling Images in the Racialized Interaction Order: Black Middle-Class Interactions and the Creativity of Racist Action
This paper investigates the link between the racial hierarchy and the racialized interaction order, questioning how controlling images of blackness are mediated in interactions. I explore this through interviews with thirty-two black British middle-class individuals, examining their interactions in the professional workplace. I argue that white people often draw on a practical knowledge of 'white ignorance' to activate controlling images in their…
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and Covid-19 in Britain
This article looks at the British government's handling of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. We argue that to analyse the government's handling of this situation, we need to synergize insights from critical race theory (CRT) with decolonial thought. CRT shows how the pandemic has revealed and exacerbated racial inequalities within Britain, while these inequalities are then explained away through a post-racial ideology. Contrastingly, de…
Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists
In this paper, I contend that classical Black sociologists—who received their doctorates in the late 19 th century–mid 20 th century—showed early signs of what is now termed as global historical sociology (GHS). Scholars such as W.E.B Du Bois, Franklin Frazier, Charles S Johnson, Allison Davis, and St Clair Drake formed a tradition of historical sociology—long before American sociology officially institutionalized comparative‐historical sociology…
Peace Is Dangerous: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of Colonial Post-fascism
This article asks: "How was the rhetoric of post or anti-fascism used to develop colonial projects in the inter and postwar period?" Through investigating the Du Bois archive, I answer this through producing a Du Boisian theory of colonial post-fascism. While many have written about the connections between European fascism and colonialism in theories of "colonial fascism," a Du Boisian approach leads us to the concept of colonial post-fascism, de…
Sociologists as change agents? Thoughts on Lamont's Seeing Others
This essay argues that Lamont's Seeing Others constitutes both an example of, and call for, public sociology. Overviewing Lamont's approach to change agents and recognition chains, I question what role sociologists can play as change agents. This involves both a brief historical overview of Du Bois' approach to recognition and social research, before putting forward some methodological questions about how to instigate an "ordinary humanism" in on…
On Violence, Race, and Social Theory: Thinking with Wacquant and Du Bois
In this article, I offer an engagement with Wacquant's checkerboard of ethnoracial violence . Drawing on material from the digitalized W. E. B. Du Bois archive, I focus on two theses of Du Boisian thought that I believe can enrich Wacquant's theorization of ethnoracial violence. In particular, I highlight how Du Bois emphasized (1) the process by which colonial violence gets (mis)recognized as nonviolence; and (2) how ethnoracial violence connect…
What can the sociology of race learn from the histories of anti-colonialism
This essay looks at three books on the histories of anti-colonialism: Desai’s the United States of India, Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire, and Gopal’s Insurgent Empire. I argue that despite it not being the authors’ primary focus, these books collectively push forward the sociology of race. In particular, each of these books shows the importance for contemporary race and racism scholarship to adopt a transnational, temporally connected approa…
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
In this editorial collection, five sociologists share their opinions on why there has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on Du Bois, and summarize their own position in relation to this intellectual area. Ranging from reflections on how they “discovered” Du Bois's works, through to assessments of American sociology's reception of Du Bois's scholarship, the idea of this brief piece is to provide an insight into some of the potential drivin…
Theoretical synergy, global social theory, and the global colourline
In this paper, I offer a reply to the critics in this book symposium. I cover issues pertaining to the how and why of theoretical synergy, and how the project of synergy between critical race and decolonial theory might contribute to the wider project of global social theory and studying the global colourline
Dwelling in epistemic disobedience: A reply to Go
In Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory, Julian Go continues his vital work on rethinking and redirecting the discipline of sociology. Go’s piece relates to his wider oeuvre of postcolonial sociology – found in works such as his Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016) as well as multiple journal articles on epistemic exclusion (Go 2020), Southern theory (Go 2016), metrocentrism (Go 2014), and the history of sociolo…
A relational study of the Black middle classes and globalised White hegemony: Identities, interactions, and ideologies in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa
In this paper, I explore the experiences of the Black middle classes across the United States, United Kingdom (UK), and South Africa. I argue that the similar experiences the Black middle classes face across these nations are not coincidental but represent the process of globalised White hegemony. Globalised White hegemony refers to how the middle class, transnationally, is often understood as a symbolic category informed by specific White norms,…
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory
The conversation between Ali Meghji and Manuela Boatcă focuses on how modernity/coloniality may (or may not) be a productive sociological concept in the remit of global social theory and wider political movements. Speaking from within different locations in the imperial core (England and Germany respectively), we discuss how the concept of modernity/coloniality has traveled over to our respective European contexts, and the ways it has informed ou…
Black men in Britain: An ethnographic portrait of the post-Windrush generation
The colour of class: The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
The Colour of Class involves a study of the Black middle-class in Britain. With regards to methods, the research draws upon interviews with 62 Black Caribbean participants in middle-class occupatio
A relational study of the Black middle classes and globalised White hegemony: Identities, interactions, and ideologies in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa
In this paper, I explore the experiences of the Black middle classes across the United States, United Kingdom (UK), and South Africa. I argue that the similar experiences the Black middle classes face across these nations are not coincidental but represent the process of globalised White hegemony. Globalised White hegemony refers to how the middle class, transnationally, is often understood as a symbolic category informed by specific White norms,…
The enduring legacy of Stuart Hall: Politics Then and Now
Reading the first page of Hall’s collected essays, I was gripped with excitement; by the time I finished the book, my feelings were closer to angst. From Hall’s writings on anti-immigrant hostility
Positionings of the black middle-classes: Understanding Identity Construction Beyond Strategic Assimilation
This paper explores the identities of Britain's black middle-classes. Drawing upon interviews with seventy-two participants, I theorize a 'triangle of identity'. This triangle emphasizes how black middle-class identities are constructed within the dynamics of three poles. Firstly, there is the class-minded pole whereby class comes to the fore as a conceptual scheme; secondly, there is the ethnoracial autonomous pole whereby 'race' is central to o…
Rationalising Racial Inequality: Ideology, Hegemony and Post-Racialism among the Black and South Asian Middle-Classes
Drawing upon 38 qualitative interviews with Black and South Asian middle-class individuals we theorise post-racialism as a hegemonic ideology. While research tends to focus on how racialised people experience racial inequality, some of our participants rationalised such inequality through a post-racial understanding. This post-racial understanding involves commitments to racial progress and transcendence, the view that racism is no longer a socie…
Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
Encoding and Decoding Black and White Cultural Capitals: Black Middle-Class Experiences
Drawing upon 23 qualitative interviews, and ethnographic work in London, this article explores how black middle-class individuals in the UK decode forms of middle-class cultural capital. This decoding is two staged. Firstly, black middle-class individuals often decode dominant or 'traditional' middle-class cultural capital as white. This involves a recognition that certain forms of middle-class cultural capital are marked as racially exclusive, a…
Activating Controlling Images in the Racialized Interaction Order: Black Middle-Class Interactions and the Creativity of Racist Action
This paper investigates the link between the racial hierarchy and the racialized interaction order, questioning how controlling images of blackness are mediated in interactions. I explore this through interviews with thirty-two black British middle-class individuals, examining their interactions in the professional workplace. I argue that white people often draw on a practical knowledge of 'white ignorance' to activate controlling images in their…
Contesting racism: How do the black middle-class use cultural consumption for anti-racism
Drawing on interviews with thirty-two black British professionals, and ethnographic work in middle-class cultural spaces across London, this paper asks ‘How do the black middle-class use cultural consumption for anti-racism?’ I argue that the black middle-class contest the racial hierarchy at three levels through their cultural consumption: the material, the ideological, and the symbolic. At the material level, black middle-class people consume c…
What can the sociology of race learn from the histories of anti-colonialism
This essay looks at three books on the histories of anti-colonialism: Desai’s the United States of India, Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire, and Gopal’s Insurgent Empire. I argue that despite it not being the authors’ primary focus, these books collectively push forward the sociology of race. In particular, each of these books shows the importance for contemporary race and racism scholarship to adopt a transnational, temporally connected approa…
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From "BritCrit" to the racialized social system approach
Critical race theory is growing in popularity in Britain. However, critics and advocates of critical race theory (CRT) in Britain have neglected the racialized social system approach. Through ignoring this approach, critics have thus "missed the target" in their rebuttals of CRT, while advocates of CRT have downplayed the strength of critical race analysis. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that that through the racialized social system approac…
Black men in Britain: An ethnographic portrait of the post-Windrush generation
Dwelling in epistemic disobedience: A reply to Go
In Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory, Julian Go continues his vital work on rethinking and redirecting the discipline of sociology. Go’s piece relates to his wider oeuvre of postcolonial sociology – found in works such as his Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016) as well as multiple journal articles on epistemic exclusion (Go 2020), Southern theory (Go 2016), metrocentrism (Go 2014), and the history of sociolo…
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and Covid-19 in Britain
This article looks at the British government's handling of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. We argue that to analyse the government's handling of this situation, we need to synergize insights from critical race theory (CRT) with decolonial thought. CRT shows how the pandemic has revealed and exacerbated racial inequalities within Britain, while these inequalities are then explained away through a post-racial ideology. Contrastingly, de…
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain
This article argues for a theoretical synergy between critical race theory (CRT) and decolonial thought. The author propounds that while CRT and decolonial thought have different scopes, we can synergize them in analysis. Specifically, decolonial thought's transnational focus on coloniality complements CRT's 'presentist' focus on national racialized social systems. The author displays the efficacy of this theoretical synergy by discussing Brexit …
On Violence, Race, and Social Theory: Thinking with Wacquant and Du Bois
In this article, I offer an engagement with Wacquant's checkerboard of ethnoracial violence . Drawing on material from the digitalized W. E. B. Du Bois archive, I focus on two theses of Du Boisian thought that I believe can enrich Wacquant's theorization of ethnoracial violence. In particular, I highlight how Du Bois emphasized (1) the process by which colonial violence gets (mis)recognized as nonviolence; and (2) how ethnoracial violence connect…
How Outsiders Within Are Made: Structural Inequalities and the Making of Academic Outsiders
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution
In this editorial collection, five sociologists share their opinions on why there has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on Du Bois, and summarize their own position in relation to this intellectual area. Ranging from reflections on how they “discovered” Du Bois's works, through to assessments of American sociology's reception of Du Bois's scholarship, the idea of this brief piece is to provide an insight into some of the potential drivin…
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory
The conversation between Ali Meghji and Manuela Boatcă focuses on how modernity/coloniality may (or may not) be a productive sociological concept in the remit of global social theory and wider political movements. Speaking from within different locations in the imperial core (England and Germany respectively), we discuss how the concept of modernity/coloniality has traveled over to our respective European contexts, and the ways it has informed ou…
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire
In this paper, I focus on two thinkers who I contend can be read as Du Boisian sociologists: Franklin Frazier and John Gibbs St. Clair Drake. I argue that both Frazier and Drake are often (mis)represented as being ethnographic sociologists of racism in the American inner city who owe their intellectual training and lineage to the Chicago School. By contrast, I argue that Frazier and Drake, while interested in race in the American inner city, both…
Peace Is Dangerous: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of Colonial Post-fascism
This article asks: "How was the rhetoric of post or anti-fascism used to develop colonial projects in the inter and postwar period?" Through investigating the Du Bois archive, I answer this through producing a Du Boisian theory of colonial post-fascism. While many have written about the connections between European fascism and colonialism in theories of "colonial fascism," a Du Boisian approach leads us to the concept of colonial post-fascism, de…
From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory
This article develops an alternative vision of public sociology. Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, this article calls for a recognition of reverse tutelage in public sociology. Here, publics are seen as sociological interlocutors who can, and often do, produce sociological theories and analyses that can inform professional sociology. I demonstrate this reverse tutelage by focusing on antic…
Who's Afraid of Sociology
Theoretical synergy, global social theory, and the global colourline
In this paper, I offer a reply to the critics in this book symposium. I cover issues pertaining to the how and why of theoretical synergy, and how the project of synergy between critical race and decolonial theory might contribute to the wider project of global social theory and studying the global colourline
Sociologists as change agents? Thoughts on Lamont's Seeing Others
This essay argues that Lamont's Seeing Others constitutes both an example of, and call for, public sociology. Overviewing Lamont's approach to change agents and recognition chains, I question what role sociologists can play as change agents. This involves both a brief historical overview of Du Bois' approach to recognition and social research, before putting forward some methodological questions about how to instigate an "ordinary humanism" in on…
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