<i>Development drowned and reborn: The blues and bourbon restorations in post-Katrina New Orleans</i>, by Clyde Woods

Frederick, Brittany Lee

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“…Du Bois's theories are primarily based on the vantage point of the Black plantation worker in the settler colony of the U.S. South and can therefore miss the particularities of the racialization of other groups of subaltern labor, for example, native peoples who were dispossessed or exterminated. Scholars like Wolfe (2016) have since sought to differentiate between the variety of land-labor relations in different types of colonies. Du Bois (1897aBois ( , [1920Bois ( ] 1999Bois ( , 1944 1979) only briefly sketches these different relations between labor, land, and racism in Africa and Asia.…”

Section: Extending Du Bois: Other Colonialisms Gender and The Contemp...mentioning

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The Soils of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Theories of Environmental Racialization

Bhardwaj

2023

Sociological Theory

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Sociologists have canonized W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of race but have neglected his engagement with environmental themes. Not only was he concerned with ecology, such as the health of soils and water, but environmental themes also figured in his explanations of racism. Du Bois prefigured contemporary scholarship on environmental racism, detailing colonial capitalism’s uneven distribution of environmental benefits—such as natural resources—and harms—such as flooding and pollution. Moreover, Du Bois had novel insights on the role of environmental entities in shaping the adoption of racism, a process I term environmental racialization. He demonstrates how struggles over land led workers to pursue racism rather than solidarity. He argues that capitalist planters adopted racism to blame laborers for degraded soils. Du Bois is one of sociology’s earliest environmental theorists, uniquely illuminating how environment-society relations shape racism.

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Section: Extending Du Bois: Other Colonialisms Gender and The Contemp...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Soils of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Theories of Environmental Racialization

Bhardwaj

2023

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Development drowned and reborn: The blues and bourbon restorations in post-Katrina New Orleans, by Clyde Woods

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The Soils of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Theories of Environmental Racialization

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