A Du Boisian Sociological Imagination
The Black Radical Tradition, Marxism and Du Boisian Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5610370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Itzigsohn (Department of Sociology Brown University Providence Rhode Island USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499-510 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.13186 |
| PMID | 39821888 |
| OpenAlex | W4406546122 |
| Language | IT |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 56 |
W. E. B. Du Bois is finally recognized as one of the founders of sociology, a social theorist, and a methodological innovator. The recognition of Du Bois' work is accompanied by the emergence of a contemporary Du Boisian sociology. This sociology takes inspiration from the work of Du Bois, but it does not limit itself to his work. It aims to bring into sociology the work of scholars that so far have been confined to the margins of the discipline, among them, Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall. Yet, as Du Bois work gets increasing visibility, important debates emerge. One of these debates concerns Du Bois' relation to Marxism, and the relationship between Du Boisian sociology to Marxist sociology. Marxist sociologists argue that Du Bois' late work, as well as the work of Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall, belongs in the Marxist tradition. In this essay I argue that while Du Bois, Fanon, and Hall were sympathetic to Marxism, their work cannot be encapsulated within the Marxist tradition. The question of the human was central to their thought. Moreover, for them colonialism and racism structure identity, lived experience and politics under capitalism in ways that are not reducible to class and class conflict. The Marxist appropriation of their work diminishes its originality and precludes the discipline from questioning the coloniality of its historical silences and its epistemic limits
Epistemology · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Black and red
An Introduction to W. E. B. Du Bois
What Fanon Said
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Racecraft
Following “the Deeds of Men”
W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Heterogeneity
The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community
The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois
Gone Home
The Social Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois
Familiar Stranger
Black Reconstruction in America
The South African tradition of racial capitalism
The rebel’s clinic
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon
Two Racial Capitalisms
The Emerging Philadelphia African American Class Structure
Return to Fanon
Pan-Africanism and Economic Nationalism
Fanon and Marx Revisited
Recentering U.S. Empire
The Scholar Denied
Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
Handbook of Sociological Theory
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois
The Race of Time
And What About the Human
Alternative View of Modernity
Reconstruction Reinterpreted
Stuart Hall, Selected Writings On Marxism
Decolonizing Sociology
Walking on Two Legs
Rethinking Historical Sociology
Du Bois and Marx, Du Bois and Marxism
The Philadelphia Negroand the Canon of Classical Urban Theory
A Bridge Over Troubled Urban Waters
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |