Black Women's Unthought Position
A Black Feminist Examination of Du Bois's Writings on Black Women's Oppression at the Intersections of Gender and Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2368630 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Green (0000-0003-2266-1814, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-198 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08912432251317162 |
| OpenAlex | W4407373792 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
The recent revival of Du Boisian sociological scholarship has resituated W.E.B. Du Bois as a foundational innovator of empirically grounded sociology who theoretically and methodologically shaped the development of multiple subfields. At the same time, this emerging body of work leaves unclear how Du Boisian sociology should be understood in relation to theorizing on the intersections of race and gender. Following Black feminist and critical approaches to antiblackness, gender, and the afterlife of slavery, I analyze the insights and limitations of Du Bois's writings at the intersections of race and gender by examining Du Bois's theorizations on women's suffrage and Black people's rebellion against slavery. While Du Bois begins to identify Black women's intersecting oppressions, he is limited in how he theorizes on womanhood, obscuring how antiblackness operates through this gendered and racialized category for Black women. Additionally, in his writings on Black emancipation, Du Bois undertheorizes how Black women's political agency was central to dismantling the plantocracy. Considering these insights and limitations, I demonstrate how critical Black feminist approaches to antiblackness and gender can advance the emancipatory aims of Du Boisian sociological scholarship on racialized modernity
Black female · Black feminism · Black women · Oppression · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Scenes of subjection
W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture
W.E.B. Du Bois and “The damnation of women”
W.E.B. Du Bois and Irene Diggs
Du Bois's contested legacy
The Sociological Insight of W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Boisian sociology and intersectionality
The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois
The Philadelphia Negro
Black Boys Apart
Out of the House of Bondage
Clinging to Mammy
They Were Her Property
Race Men
Dispossessed Lives
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Decolonizing Migration Studies
The Soils of Black Folk
Dear Doctor Du Bois”
Fever dreams
Gendering the General Strike
Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy
A Man among Other Men
The Scholar Denied
Jim Crow Sociology
The Race of Time
White Women and Slavery in the Caribbean
Du Bois
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Venus in Two Acts
Becoming Human
Respectable
The Enslaved, the Worker, and Du Bois's Black Reconstruction
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |