{"id":42464,"date":"2015-08-31T01:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42464"},"modified":"2015-08-31T01:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:14:23","slug":"rewriting-the-history-of-american-sociology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42464","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting the History of American Sociology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rewriting the History of American Sociology<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Northwestern University News<\/a>
\nEvanston, Illinois
\n2015-08-26<\/p>\n

Hilary Hurd Anyaso<\/a><\/strong>, Law and Social Sciences Editor<\/p>\n

Groundbreaking book argues W.E.B. Du Bois is primary founder of modern sociology<\/em><\/p>\n

EVANSTON, Ill.<\/a> — In his groundbreaking new book, Northwestern University\u2019s Aldon Morris<\/a> has done no less than rewrite the history of sociology by making a compelling case that black sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a> was the primary founder of modern sociology in America at the turn of the 20th century. It is a sociology that bases its theoretical claims on rigorous empirical research.<\/p>\n

Pulling from over a decade of research in primary sources such as personal letters, conference proceedings and scholarly writings, \u201cThe Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology<\/a>\u201d (University of California Press, August 2015) argues that power, money, politics and the ideology of white supremacy led to W.E.B. Du Bois being \u201cwritten out\u201d of the founding of sociology. Moreover his intellectual breakthroughs were marginalized in the field for the last century.<\/p>\n

Morris, the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern\u2019s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, argues that Du Bois\u2019 pioneering work was often characterized in the academy as unscientific and politically motivated while systemic racial biases colored the intellectual work of leading white sociologists, even those with liberal bents throughout the 20th century.<\/p>\n

In Morris\u2019 gripping narrative, Robert E. Park<\/a>, the white University of Chicago scholar considered to be one of the major architects of modern-day sociology, and Booker T. Washington<\/a>, the most famous and powerful black man in America between 1895 and 1915, play a central role in marginalizing the pioneering work that Du Bois and other black scholars produced at Atlanta University, a historically black institution.<\/p>\n

The Du Bois-Atlanta School profoundly influenced the discipline by laying the intellectual foundations of scientific sociology, Morris argues, noting that Max Weber<\/a>, the famous German sociologist and philosopher, was significantly influenced by Du Bois\u2019 work…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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