F Blume Oeur
Biographic Data
| ID | 43979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Blume Oeur |
| GIVEN NAMES | F Blume |
| FAMILY NAME | Oeur |
| SIGNATURE | OEUR F B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9442-9144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between the Is and the Ought: Abolition Democracy and Du Boisian Futures in Sociological Praxis
Across W. E. B. Du Bois’s long life, as in our current moment, conversations about race were contested in the general public as well as on university campuses. We are living in yet another “revolutionary situation,” to echo James Baldwin, who, in speaking to a group of educators in 1963 just weeks after Du Bois’s death, insisted that we be prepared to “go for broke.” In this essay, we offer a model for how sociology instructors can go for broke c…
Textbook Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Boardman, and Black Reconstruction in America
One familiar refrain concerning W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America is that the book is a rebuke of the disreputable historiography of the period, authored by historians including William A. Dunning, John W. Burgess, and Claude G. Bowers. For all the focus on these well‐known figures, our essay begins with Helen Boardman, the person hiding in plain sight at the start of the book's stirring final chapter, “The Propaganda of History.…
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr
A sociology of entrapment: Book Review of The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth , by Derron Wallace, Reviewed by Freeden Blume Oeur
Language Loss and Return in the Cambodian Diaspora: A Sociological Memoir
Written as a memoir, this essay contemplates who is absent and present in family pictures-who has died and who has outlived the dead-to frame a conversation about how my own Cambodian family has come to speak with one another. I reflect on the incapacity to speak about trauma and the loss of native language skills as braided processes. Drawing inspiration from the practice of Du Boisian autoethnography, as well as the work of Cambodian scholars a…
The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration
On the occasion of the book’s quasquicentennial, our special issue brings together four articles that show the continuing relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). The contributors illustrate how a fresh perspective on the theoretical insights that Du Bois began to develop in The Philadelphia Negro deepen understanding of contemporary topics such as gentrification, policing, residential mobility, and the rhyth…
Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda
A silence in the resurgence of scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois has been his work as an instructor. This article uses Du Bois’s early teaching experiences and reflections on the “ugly” progress of schooling to ask: What should guide the pedagogy of sociology instructors when racial progress is so ugly? I sketch here a pedagogy inspired by Du Bois—who was the teacher denied—which is motivated by a positive notion of propaganda. Du Bois was a radica…
Colonialism, Racism, and Childhoods: Introduction
Over the past two decades, pressing questions around childhood, age, difference, and power have traversed the multidisciplinary study of childhood, and have come to overlap increasingly with writings on colonialism. While children remain relatively under-analyzed across this scholarship, children and notions of childhood are always implicated in colonialism and its vestiges. Moreover, legacies of colonialism shape the images of children who domin…
Looking Back to Look Forward: Publication Trends in the First Decade of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)
We raise concerns about Quadlin and Montgomery’s Social Psychology Quarterly article, “When a Name Gives You Pause,” a study of whether racialized names affect the time to dog adoption in a county shelter. Our comment is guided by the recent insistence of American Sociological Association leadership for greater critical introspection in sociological research. First, the study is ahistorical by overlooking histories of human-animal relations and n…
Stakes is High (Higher than High)”: A Symposium on Doing and Teaching Race Scholarship in Perilous Times
The Art of Listening: Notes on Feminist Book Reviewing
Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi
Dorothy Smith's Legacy of Social Theorizing: Introduction
In 1992, Barbara Laslett and Barrie Thorne organized a symposium in Sociological Theory with the aim of tearing down a 'wall of silence' between feminist theory and the mainstream of sociological theorizing. For help, the editors turned to the work of Dorothy E. Smith, the renowned theoretician and methodologist. Smith's theorizing today carries even greater appeal, having expanded from a sociology for women to a sociology for people. This wider …
Introduction to “Our Two Cents”
Studying Each Other
A Symposium on Charles W. Mills and The Racial Contract
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues
Michael Burawoy's 2021 essay, 'Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois', forges dialogues between the scholar denied and established theorists with the aim of reconstructing the sociological canon. My commentary situates the author's essay and his own Du Boisian turn in a long career dedicated to reflexive science and recomposing theory. I reflect on the seemingly innocuous notion of a dialogue itself: its implications for soci…
Allyship in the Time of Aggrievement
In 2019, Vox reporter Jane Coaston announced that intersectionality—or the idea of mutually reinforcing systems of oppression—might be most hated word in American conservatism. Even self-identified liberals have made their contempt for feminist theory and intersectionality known in their attacks on “grievance studies”. Black male aggrievement, and antagonism between black feminism and New Black Masculinities (NBM), has been nurtured by a neoliber…
Fever dreams: W. E. B. Du Bois and the racial trauma of Covid-19 and lynching
In 1899, diphtheria claimed the life of W. E. B. Du Bois's son, Burghardt. How can Burghardt's death help us to understand the racialized consequences of the present coronavirus pandemic? This article considers what Du Bois described as the "phantasmagoria" that ensnares racial structures. I examine COVID as the latest iteration of a distinctly racialized American trauma narrated in the grammar of Du Bois's reflections on disease, extrajudicial k…
Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools
The Respectable Brotherhood: Young Black Men in an All-boys Charter High School
Neoliberal public school reform has revitalized efforts to open unique all-male schools for black boys. Existing research stresses how these black male academies nurture resilience but has failed to examine what makes these schools distinctive. Drawing on one year of ethnographic research, this article demonstrates how Northside Academy, an all-male charter high school, built a respectable brotherhood. Modeled after elite all-male institutions, N…
Recognizing Dignity: Young Black Men Growing Up in an Era of Surveillance
An enduring finding is that marginalized young men of color aggressively seek 'respect,' or masculine status. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at an all-boys public high school, the author found that respect-a desire to 'be known'-offers an incomplete explanation for how young black men claim recognition in an era of surveillance. These findings reveal an alternative and more complex portrait of criminalized young black men in search of multiple…
Religion and Higher Education: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research
In light of increased scholarly and public discussion about the proper position of religion in higher education, we take stock of existing social scientific studies to illuminate what we know-and what we don't know-about religion and higher education. We argue that research shows that college students are more religiously engaged than has traditionally been thought, but that this interest appears to be more broad than deep; that the college exper…
Religion and Higher Education: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research
In light of increased scholarly and public discussion about the proper position of religion in higher education, we take stock of existing social scientific studies to illuminate what we know-and what we don't know-about religion and higher education. We argue that research shows that college students are more religiously engaged than has traditionally been thought, but that this interest appears to be more broad than deep; that the college exper…
Recognizing Dignity: Young Black Men Growing Up in an Era of Surveillance
An enduring finding is that marginalized young men of color aggressively seek 'respect,' or masculine status. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at an all-boys public high school, the author found that respect-a desire to 'be known'-offers an incomplete explanation for how young black men claim recognition in an era of surveillance. These findings reveal an alternative and more complex portrait of criminalized young black men in search of multiple…
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues
Michael Burawoy's 2021 essay, 'Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois', forges dialogues between the scholar denied and established theorists with the aim of reconstructing the sociological canon. My commentary situates the author's essay and his own Du Boisian turn in a long career dedicated to reflexive science and recomposing theory. I reflect on the seemingly innocuous notion of a dialogue itself: its implications for soci…
The Respectable Brotherhood: Young Black Men in an All-boys Charter High School
Neoliberal public school reform has revitalized efforts to open unique all-male schools for black boys. Existing research stresses how these black male academies nurture resilience but has failed to examine what makes these schools distinctive. Drawing on one year of ethnographic research, this article demonstrates how Northside Academy, an all-male charter high school, built a respectable brotherhood. Modeled after elite all-male institutions, N…
Fever dreams: W. E. B. Du Bois and the racial trauma of Covid-19 and lynching
In 1899, diphtheria claimed the life of W. E. B. Du Bois's son, Burghardt. How can Burghardt's death help us to understand the racialized consequences of the present coronavirus pandemic? This article considers what Du Bois described as the "phantasmagoria" that ensnares racial structures. I examine COVID as the latest iteration of a distinctly racialized American trauma narrated in the grammar of Du Bois's reflections on disease, extrajudicial k…
Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda
A silence in the resurgence of scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois has been his work as an instructor. This article uses Du Bois’s early teaching experiences and reflections on the “ugly” progress of schooling to ask: What should guide the pedagogy of sociology instructors when racial progress is so ugly? I sketch here a pedagogy inspired by Du Bois—who was the teacher denied—which is motivated by a positive notion of propaganda. Du Bois was a radica…
Religion and Higher Education: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research
In light of increased scholarly and public discussion about the proper position of religion in higher education, we take stock of existing social scientific studies to illuminate what we know-and what we don't know-about religion and higher education. We argue that research shows that college students are more religiously engaged than has traditionally been thought, but that this interest appears to be more broad than deep; that the college exper…
Recognizing Dignity: Young Black Men Growing Up in an Era of Surveillance
An enduring finding is that marginalized young men of color aggressively seek 'respect,' or masculine status. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at an all-boys public high school, the author found that respect-a desire to 'be known'-offers an incomplete explanation for how young black men claim recognition in an era of surveillance. These findings reveal an alternative and more complex portrait of criminalized young black men in search of multiple…
The Respectable Brotherhood: Young Black Men in an All-boys Charter High School
Neoliberal public school reform has revitalized efforts to open unique all-male schools for black boys. Existing research stresses how these black male academies nurture resilience but has failed to examine what makes these schools distinctive. Drawing on one year of ethnographic research, this article demonstrates how Northside Academy, an all-male charter high school, built a respectable brotherhood. Modeled after elite all-male institutions, N…
Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools
Allyship in the Time of Aggrievement
In 2019, Vox reporter Jane Coaston announced that intersectionality—or the idea of mutually reinforcing systems of oppression—might be most hated word in American conservatism. Even self-identified liberals have made their contempt for feminist theory and intersectionality known in their attacks on “grievance studies”. Black male aggrievement, and antagonism between black feminism and New Black Masculinities (NBM), has been nurtured by a neoliber…
Fever dreams: W. E. B. Du Bois and the racial trauma of Covid-19 and lynching
In 1899, diphtheria claimed the life of W. E. B. Du Bois's son, Burghardt. How can Burghardt's death help us to understand the racialized consequences of the present coronavirus pandemic? This article considers what Du Bois described as the "phantasmagoria" that ensnares racial structures. I examine COVID as the latest iteration of a distinctly racialized American trauma narrated in the grammar of Du Bois's reflections on disease, extrajudicial k…
Introduction to “Our Two Cents”
Studying Each Other
A Symposium on Charles W. Mills and The Racial Contract
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues
Michael Burawoy's 2021 essay, 'Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois', forges dialogues between the scholar denied and established theorists with the aim of reconstructing the sociological canon. My commentary situates the author's essay and his own Du Boisian turn in a long career dedicated to reflexive science and recomposing theory. I reflect on the seemingly innocuous notion of a dialogue itself: its implications for soci…
Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)
We raise concerns about Quadlin and Montgomery’s Social Psychology Quarterly article, “When a Name Gives You Pause,” a study of whether racialized names affect the time to dog adoption in a county shelter. Our comment is guided by the recent insistence of American Sociological Association leadership for greater critical introspection in sociological research. First, the study is ahistorical by overlooking histories of human-animal relations and n…
Stakes is High (Higher than High)”: A Symposium on Doing and Teaching Race Scholarship in Perilous Times
The Art of Listening: Notes on Feminist Book Reviewing
Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi
Dorothy Smith's Legacy of Social Theorizing: Introduction
In 1992, Barbara Laslett and Barrie Thorne organized a symposium in Sociological Theory with the aim of tearing down a 'wall of silence' between feminist theory and the mainstream of sociological theorizing. For help, the editors turned to the work of Dorothy E. Smith, the renowned theoretician and methodologist. Smith's theorizing today carries even greater appeal, having expanded from a sociology for women to a sociology for people. This wider …
The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration
On the occasion of the book’s quasquicentennial, our special issue brings together four articles that show the continuing relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). The contributors illustrate how a fresh perspective on the theoretical insights that Du Bois began to develop in The Philadelphia Negro deepen understanding of contemporary topics such as gentrification, policing, residential mobility, and the rhyth…
Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda
A silence in the resurgence of scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois has been his work as an instructor. This article uses Du Bois’s early teaching experiences and reflections on the “ugly” progress of schooling to ask: What should guide the pedagogy of sociology instructors when racial progress is so ugly? I sketch here a pedagogy inspired by Du Bois—who was the teacher denied—which is motivated by a positive notion of propaganda. Du Bois was a radica…
Colonialism, Racism, and Childhoods: Introduction
Over the past two decades, pressing questions around childhood, age, difference, and power have traversed the multidisciplinary study of childhood, and have come to overlap increasingly with writings on colonialism. While children remain relatively under-analyzed across this scholarship, children and notions of childhood are always implicated in colonialism and its vestiges. Moreover, legacies of colonialism shape the images of children who domin…
Looking Back to Look Forward: Publication Trends in the First Decade of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Between the Is and the Ought: Abolition Democracy and Du Boisian Futures in Sociological Praxis
Across W. E. B. Du Bois’s long life, as in our current moment, conversations about race were contested in the general public as well as on university campuses. We are living in yet another “revolutionary situation,” to echo James Baldwin, who, in speaking to a group of educators in 1963 just weeks after Du Bois’s death, insisted that we be prepared to “go for broke.” In this essay, we offer a model for how sociology instructors can go for broke c…
Textbook Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Boardman, and Black Reconstruction in America
One familiar refrain concerning W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America is that the book is a rebuke of the disreputable historiography of the period, authored by historians including William A. Dunning, John W. Burgess, and Claude G. Bowers. For all the focus on these well‐known figures, our essay begins with Helen Boardman, the person hiding in plain sight at the start of the book's stirring final chapter, “The Propaganda of History.…
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr
A sociology of entrapment: Book Review of The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth , by Derron Wallace, Reviewed by Freeden Blume Oeur
Language Loss and Return in the Cambodian Diaspora: A Sociological Memoir
Written as a memoir, this essay contemplates who is absent and present in family pictures-who has died and who has outlived the dead-to frame a conversation about how my own Cambodian family has come to speak with one another. I reflect on the incapacity to speak about trauma and the loss of native language skills as braided processes. Drawing inspiration from the practice of Du Boisian autoethnography, as well as the work of Cambodian scholars a…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (9 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Social science (6 works)