Following “the Deeds of Men”: Race, “the Global,” and International Relations

Magubane, Zine

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“…Meanwhile, new explorations of Du Bois have discovered and elaborated upon concepts, theories, and methods that his corpus offers. Du Bois’s repertoire is deeper and wider than we have hitherto imagined (Itzigsohn and Brown 2015; Magubane 2016).…”

Section: For a Postcolonial Sociology Of Racementioning

confidence: 92%

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The author considers what postcolonial theory has to contribute to the sociology of race. Although there are overlaps, postcolonial theory and the sociology of race are not reducible to each other. Postcolonial theory emphasizes the global, historical, and therefore colonial dimensions of race relations, including how imperialism has generated racial thought and racial stratification. A postcolonial sociology of race, therefore, would (1) analytically recover empire and colonialism and their legacies, (2) excavate colonial racialization and trace its continuities into the present, (3) reveal the reciprocal constitution of racialized identities that began under empire, and (4) critique the imperial standpoint and seek out the subjugated epistemologies of racialized subjects. Although such a postcolonial sociology of race is a project that has yet to be fully realized, there are a number of existing sociological works that begin the journey and point us in the right direction.

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Section: For a Postcolonial Sociology Of Racementioning

confidence: 92%

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…The theories, narratives, and sociological accounts of the founding sociologists present at the St. Louis Congress denied not only the knowledge of colonized peoples but also their agency . In his rebuke to the International Congress, Du Bois underlined this sort of exclusion, writing that the sociologists’ exuberance for “natural laws” and commitments to “general rules and principles” effaced “the Deeds of Men” and “human wills capable of undetermined choices” (Du Bois [1905] 2000: 38, 43; see also Magubane 2016). But more than just all “human wills” and the “Deeds” of all men, early sociology effaced the will and deeds of nonwhite colonized peoples especially.…”

Section: Meet Me In St Louismentioning

confidence: 99%

Race, Empire, and Epistemic Exclusion: Or the Structures of Sociological Thought

2020

Sociological Theory

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This essay analyzes racialized exclusions in sociology through a focus on sociology’s deep epistemic structures. These structures dictate what counts as social scientific knowledge and who can produce it. A historical analysis of their emergence and persistence reveals their connections to empire. Due to sociology’s initial emergence within the culture of American imperialism, early sociological thought embedded the culture of empire’s exclusionary logics. Sociology’s epistemic structures were inextricably racialized, contributing to exclusionary modes of thought and practice along the lines of race, ethnicity, and social geography that persist into the present. Overcoming this racialized inequality requires problematizing and unsettling these epistemic structures by (1) provincializing the canon to create a transformative epistemic pluralism and (2) reconsidering common conceptions of what counts as “theory” in the first place.

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“…This scholarship has examined the importance of empire to economic development (Frank 1979; Go 2011; Wallerstein 1974, 2011) as well as the practices of exploitation practiced upon colonized populations (Magubane 2005). However, rarely does this literature encounter race and the global dynamics of slavery as a structuring or causal force mediating actions on a global stage (see Magubane 2017 as an exception).…”

Section: Interrogating the Role Of Colonized People In The Making Of mentioning

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Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and Liberia

Hammer

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2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and justifications for state formation. The cases of Haiti and Liberia demonstrate how enslaved and formerly enslaved actors rethought modern politics at the time, producing novel political subjects in the process. Prior to the existence of these nations, self-determination by black subjects in colonial spaces was impossible, and each sought to carve out that possibility in the face of a transatlantic structure of slavery. This work demonstrates how Haitian and Liberian American founders responded to colonial structures, though in Liberia reproducing them albeit for their own ends. The authors demonstrate the importance of colonial subjectivities to the discernment of racial structures and counter-racist action. They highlight how anticolonial actors challenged global antiblack oppression and how they legitimated their self-governance and freedom on the world stage. Theorizing from colonized subjectivities allows sociology to begin to understand the politics around global racial formations and starts to incorporate histories of black agency into the sociological canon.

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Following “the Deeds of Men”: Race, “the Global,” and International Relations

Cited by 13 publications

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Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

Race, Empire, and Epistemic Exclusion: Or the Structures of Sociological Thought

Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and Liberia

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