Paul C Mocombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 98138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul C Mocombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mocombe |
| SIGNATURE | MOCOMBE P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6154-6176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Emergence of Urbanization and Urbanism in Phenomenological Structural Sociology
Within Mocombe’s theories of phenomenological structuralism and consciousness field theory, this article outlines the emergence of the process of urbanization and urbanism as a way of life in the capitalist world-system. The paper connects, causally, the emergence of the latter with the formation of the former two, i.e., urbanization and urbanism, in the West
The clowns of I am with him vs. the clowns of I am with her
In this work, using Mocombe’s structurationist theory of phenomenological tructuralism, I argue that the supporters of Donald Trump (the clowns of I am with him) and those of Kamala Harris (the clowns of I am with her) are representatives of a uniparty in American politics created by their relations to two distinct modes of capitalist production (industrial and postindustrial production) and the rentier oligarchical class in control of the politi…
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, by Eziaku Atuama NWOKOCHA
Journal Article Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, by EZIAKU ATUAMA Nwokocha Get access Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States, by EZIAKU ATUAMA Nwokocha. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023, 208 pp.; $24.59 USD (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4696-7401-8. Paul C Mocombe Paul C Mocombe West Virginia State University, USA [email protected] Search f…
Black Assimiliationism in Neoliberal Globalization
This article, using Mocombeian phenomenological structural theory, argues that since their arrival on North American soil, the constitution of black American identity has been the product of their relations to the means and mode of production within the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. As such, black Americans, and this includes the so-called black radical tradition, have never been agents in the constitution of their own identities…
The Queerification and Effeminization of Haitian Society
This article applies Mocombe’s concepts of queerification and effeminization to Haitian society, contemporarily. For Mocombe, the shift from industrial capitalism to postindustrial capitalism in the West has led to emasculated and feminine patriarchy, the assumption of patriarchal norms by the state, its ideological apparatuses, queers, and women (given the feminization and queerification of the postindustrial – financialized – workplace) from in…
Black feminine patriarchy
The Westernization of black women in the US and throughout the Diaspora, via ideological apparatuses such as education and the labour market, is symptomatic of the West’s attempt to interpellate and embourgeois them, post the 1970s, to fit, converge, with their role as professional managers and service workers in the globalization efforts, for equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with their white male counterparts, in spite of s…
Feminine patriarchy
In this article, I, using Paul C. Mocombe’s structurationist theory of phenomenological structuralism against feminist theories, put forth the argument that the third wave (1990 to the present) of feminine activism against the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism has given rise to feminine patriarchy, the push by women for equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with their white male counterparts by recursively organizing …
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition
Mocombeian Antihumanism
In the age of neoliberal (postindustrial) globalization social integration takes place, paradoxically, through the identity politics of postmodernism and poststructuralism on the one hand, and the continuous atomization of the human subject in (neo)liberalism on the other. This process, for me, is a continuation of the humanist ideology of liberalism and a humanist reactionism among previously discriminated against others seeking equality of oppo…
Ti Manno the haitian prophet
Haitian Epistemology
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Chapter 3 highlights the nature and origins of globalization under American hegemony within a structurationist framework as it stands against the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism of the African majority on the island of Haiti. Suggesting that whereas colonial Protestant global capitalism operated predominantly under European hegemony, following World War II globalization, it emerges as a product of the discourse of the Protestant Ethic and…
Identity and Ideology in Haiti: The Children of Sans Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion
Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of Pétion v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally viewed within racial terms – the mulatto elites v. the African (black) poor ma…
Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, Phenomenological Structuralism, and the Resolution of the Structure/Agency Problematic of the Social Sciences
The demystification of the Vodou religion or ontology as practiced in Haiti, epistemologically, reveals a form of transcendental idealism and realism, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, which produces a hermeneutical phenomenology, materialism, and an antidialectical process to history enframed by a reciprocal justice as its normative ethics. The latter is constantly being invoked by individual social actors to reconcile the noumenal (sacred-ideational) a…
The Death of Imhotep: A Hermeneutical Framework for Understanding the Lack of Black Males in STEM Fields
In Afrocentric circles in the United States, ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) scientist Imhotep is considered the Black father of medicine. In this article, I use his name in the title as an allusion to highlight the lack of Black males matriculating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs or fields in the United States. The work offers a more appropriate structural Marxist hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conce…
The Dialectical Problematic of Resolving the Black–White Academic Achievement Gap and Climate Change
In this article, I argue that resolving the Black–White academic achievement gap is incompatible with the emerging issues of global climate change. That is, solutions (equitable funding of schools and resources, school integration movements, and after-school and mentoring programs) for closing the gap in order so that Blacks in America and elsewhere can achieve equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with their White and Asian coun…
Against Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) seeks to apply the negative dialectics of critical theory to the intersection of race, law, and power in the pursuit of racial and ethnic equality in Western society. That is to say, critical race theorists seek to convict Western society for not identifying with their values due to the prevalence of racial and ethnic oppression and subordination in the society. I argue here that this pursuit of racial emancipation and …
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and the Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
This work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic (i.e. syncretism, materialism, holism, communalism) gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism in the provinces, mountains and urban slums of Haiti, which would be juxtaposed against the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of the white, mulatto and petit-bourgeois classes (i.e. the Affranchis of the island). This latter worldview, I go on to arg…
The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social class language games of the black American community:…
The anti-dialectical signification of Erzulie Danthor and Bois Caiman of the Haitian Revolution
This work focuses on how and why the purposive-rationality of the originating moments of the Haitian Revolution at Bois Caiman is an anti-dialectical, as opposed to a dialectical, movement against enslavement as offered by traditional interpretations of the Revolution. The author concludes that the intent, as reflected in Boukman’s prayer, of the originating moments of the Haitian Revolution at Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman) was not for equality of op…
Postindustrial capitalism and the problems with Bourdieu’s social and cultural capital in understanding the Black/White achievement gap in the United States and United Kingdom
This hermeneutical essay demonstrates why and how Pierre Bourdieu’s social reproduction theory is neither an adequate explanation for understanding praxis nor the Black/White academic achievement gap in contemporary postindustrial economies like that of the United States and the United Kingdom. The underlining hypothesis of the work is that the origins of Black academic underachievement vis-à-vis Whites in the United States and United Kingdom is …
The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-system
This article puts forth the argument that people of African descent in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony, that is, globalization, are ever so slowly becoming African-Americanized because of the ideological and material influence of the black underclass via hip-hop culture and work and the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism promulgated throughout the diaspora by black American charismatic liberal bourgeois…
Jesus and the streets
In this article, against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, this work offers a more appropriate neo-Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Positing that in general the origins of the black/white acad…
Race and class distinctions within black communities in the United States and United Kingdom: A reading in phenomenological structuralism
This article examines the constitution of black consciousness within the United States and Great Britain via structuration theory and phenomenological structuralism. Against the postmodern and poststructural logic of intersectionality and Du Boisian double consciousness as articulated contemporarily in the discourses of postsegregation black scholars in the likes of Cornel West and Paul Gilroy to explain the constitution of black consciousness, w…
Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony
The book Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony is a series of essays edited by Viatcheslav Morozov that explores the concept and phenomenon of democracy within th
Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony
The book Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony is a series of essays edited by Viatcheslav Morozov that explores the concept and phenomenon of democracy within th
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and the Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
This work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic (i.e. syncretism, materialism, holism, communalism) gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism in the provinces, mountains and urban slums of Haiti, which would be juxtaposed against the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of the white, mulatto and petit-bourgeois classes (i.e. the Affranchis of the island). This latter worldview, I go on to arg…
A social structural reinterpretation of 'the burden of acting White: A Hermeneutical Analysis
This essay explores how social psychologically the social structure of capitalist inequality has given rise to the Black–White achievement gap. This critical understanding is a reinterpretation of the ‘burden of acting White’ hypothesis, and suggests that research on the achievement gap should focus on how the Black–White achievement gap is more a result of two interrelated epiphenomena, ‘mismatch of linguistic structure’ and ‘mismatch of linguis…
Against Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) seeks to apply the negative dialectics of critical theory to the intersection of race, law, and power in the pursuit of racial and ethnic equality in Western society. That is to say, critical race theorists seek to convict Western society for not identifying with their values due to the prevalence of racial and ethnic oppression and subordination in the society. I argue here that this pursuit of racial emancipation and …
The sociolinguistic nature of black academic failure in capitalist education: A reevaluation of ‘language in the inner city’ and its social function, ‘acting white’
Studies on the acting white hypothesis—the premise that black students purposefully do poorly in school and on standardized tests because of racialized peer pressure—to explain the black–white achievement gap have not been able to negate the fact that a ‘burden of acting white’ exists for some black students, even though it is not prevalent among the group. This article rethinks the conventional understanding of ‘acting white,’ as the basis for t…
The Death of Imhotep: A Hermeneutical Framework for Understanding the Lack of Black Males in STEM Fields
In Afrocentric circles in the United States, ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) scientist Imhotep is considered the Black father of medicine. In this article, I use his name in the title as an allusion to highlight the lack of Black males matriculating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs or fields in the United States. The work offers a more appropriate structural Marxist hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conce…
The gentrification of Africa in the contemporary capitalist world-system: Reply to Kelsall and Gberie
The sociolinguistic nature of black academic failure in capitalist education: A reevaluation of ‘language in the inner city’ and its social function, ‘acting white’
Studies on the acting white hypothesis—the premise that black students purposefully do poorly in school and on standardized tests because of racialized peer pressure—to explain the black–white achievement gap have not been able to negate the fact that a ‘burden of acting white’ exists for some black students, even though it is not prevalent among the group. This article rethinks the conventional understanding of ‘acting white,’ as the basis for t…
The Soul-Less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness as Du Boisian Double Consciousness
Since the 1960s, there have been two schools of thought on the origins and nature of black consciousness: the adaptive-vitality school and the pathological-pathogenic school. The latter argues that in its divergences from white American norms and values, black American consciousness is nothing more than a pathological form of and reaction to American consciousness, rather than a dual (both African and American) counter hegemonic opposing 'identit…
Minority within a Minority: Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance (review)
Reviewed by: Minority within a Minority: Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance Paul C. Mocombe Amal Ibrahim Madibbo . Minority within a Minority: Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance. New York-London: Routledge, 2006. 254 pp. $95.00 US hc. Amal I. Madibbo's work, Minority within a Minority: Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance, is part of a Routledge…
Soul-less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness As du Boisian Double Consciousness
The Oppositional Culture Theory
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the world. Furthermore, blacks must construct their identities and be in the world by choosing between the discursive practices of the Protestant a…
A social structural reinterpretation of 'the burden of acting White: A Hermeneutical Analysis
This essay explores how social psychologically the social structure of capitalist inequality has given rise to the Black–White achievement gap. This critical understanding is a reinterpretation of the ‘burden of acting White’ hypothesis, and suggests that research on the achievement gap should focus on how the Black–White achievement gap is more a result of two interrelated epiphenomena, ‘mismatch of linguistic structure’ and ‘mismatch of linguis…
Liberal Bourgeois Protestantism: The Metaphysics of Globalization
Sociological theory regarding the contemporary (1970s to the present) phenomenon of globalization focuses either on convergence or hybridization.The former, convergence, highlights the ever-increasing homogenization of cultures and societies around the globe via socioeconomic rational forces. From this perspective globalization is tantamount to Westernization or Americanization of other cultures and societies via neoliberal economic, market, subj…
Postindustrial Capitalism, Social Class Language Games, and Black Underachievement in the United States and United Kingdom
Against Ogbu's oppositional culture hypothesis, this article offers a class or structural/relational framework to contextualizing and understanding why it is that Blacks have more limited skills in processing information from articles, books, tables, charts, and graphs compared with their White counterparts in the United States and United Kingdom. We synthesize Marxian conceptions of identity construction within capitalist relations of production…
Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Black Underachievement in the United States and United Kingdom
This article synthesizes Marxian conceptions of identity construction within capitalist relations of production with the Wittgensteinian notion of “language games” to offer a more appropriate relational framework within which scholars ought to understand the Black–White academic achievement gap in America, the United Kingdom, and globally
Jesus and the streets
In this article, against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, this work offers a more appropriate neo-Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Positing that in general the origins of the black/white acad…
Race and class distinctions within black communities in the United States and United Kingdom: A reading in phenomenological structuralism
This article examines the constitution of black consciousness within the United States and Great Britain via structuration theory and phenomenological structuralism. Against the postmodern and poststructural logic of intersectionality and Du Boisian double consciousness as articulated contemporarily in the discourses of postsegregation black scholars in the likes of Cornel West and Paul Gilroy to explain the constitution of black consciousness, w…
Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony
The book Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony is a series of essays edited by Viatcheslav Morozov that explores the concept and phenomenon of democracy within th
Postindustrial capitalism and the problems with Bourdieu’s social and cultural capital in understanding the Black/White achievement gap in the United States and United Kingdom
This hermeneutical essay demonstrates why and how Pierre Bourdieu’s social reproduction theory is neither an adequate explanation for understanding praxis nor the Black/White academic achievement gap in contemporary postindustrial economies like that of the United States and the United Kingdom. The underlining hypothesis of the work is that the origins of Black academic underachievement vis-à-vis Whites in the United States and United Kingdom is …
The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-system
This article puts forth the argument that people of African descent in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony, that is, globalization, are ever so slowly becoming African-Americanized because of the ideological and material influence of the black underclass via hip-hop culture and work and the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism promulgated throughout the diaspora by black American charismatic liberal bourgeois…
The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social class language games of the black American community:…
The anti-dialectical signification of Erzulie Danthor and Bois Caiman of the Haitian Revolution
This work focuses on how and why the purposive-rationality of the originating moments of the Haitian Revolution at Bois Caiman is an anti-dialectical, as opposed to a dialectical, movement against enslavement as offered by traditional interpretations of the Revolution. The author concludes that the intent, as reflected in Boukman’s prayer, of the originating moments of the Haitian Revolution at Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman) was not for equality of op…
The Dialectical Problematic of Resolving the Black–White Academic Achievement Gap and Climate Change
In this article, I argue that resolving the Black–White academic achievement gap is incompatible with the emerging issues of global climate change. That is, solutions (equitable funding of schools and resources, school integration movements, and after-school and mentoring programs) for closing the gap in order so that Blacks in America and elsewhere can achieve equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with their White and Asian coun…
Against Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) seeks to apply the negative dialectics of critical theory to the intersection of race, law, and power in the pursuit of racial and ethnic equality in Western society. That is to say, critical race theorists seek to convict Western society for not identifying with their values due to the prevalence of racial and ethnic oppression and subordination in the society. I argue here that this pursuit of racial emancipation and …
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and the Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
This work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic (i.e. syncretism, materialism, holism, communalism) gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism in the provinces, mountains and urban slums of Haiti, which would be juxtaposed against the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of the white, mulatto and petit-bourgeois classes (i.e. the Affranchis of the island). This latter worldview, I go on to arg…
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Chapter 3 highlights the nature and origins of globalization under American hegemony within a structurationist framework as it stands against the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism of the African majority on the island of Haiti. Suggesting that whereas colonial Protestant global capitalism operated predominantly under European hegemony, following World War II globalization, it emerges as a product of the discourse of the Protestant Ethic and…
Identity and Ideology in Haiti: The Children of Sans Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion
Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of Pétion v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally viewed within racial terms – the mulatto elites v. the African (black) poor ma…
Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, Phenomenological Structuralism, and the Resolution of the Structure/Agency Problematic of the Social Sciences
The demystification of the Vodou religion or ontology as practiced in Haiti, epistemologically, reveals a form of transcendental idealism and realism, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, which produces a hermeneutical phenomenology, materialism, and an antidialectical process to history enframed by a reciprocal justice as its normative ethics. The latter is constantly being invoked by individual social actors to reconcile the noumenal (sacred-ideational) a…
The Death of Imhotep: A Hermeneutical Framework for Understanding the Lack of Black Males in STEM Fields
In Afrocentric circles in the United States, ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) scientist Imhotep is considered the Black father of medicine. In this article, I use his name in the title as an allusion to highlight the lack of Black males matriculating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs or fields in the United States. The work offers a more appropriate structural Marxist hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conce…
Ti Manno the haitian prophet
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