Sociology 2-6 (Dubois, Successors)

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Madison Grant

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Eugenics movement, racism, immigration

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First Wave of AA sociologists

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1) Refuting racisim
2) Social critique and direct ACTION
3) Generally theoretical, not empirical

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Marcus Garvey

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1887-1940

Black nationalist, founded UNIA + ACL

Back to Africa Movement

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Booker T. Washington

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1856-1915

Cooperated with white people, Up From Slavery, Raised funds for black educational institutions

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WEB Du Bois bio

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Sheltered from racism growing up, PhD from Harvard, taught at Wilberforce and Penn

Wrote The Philadelphia Negro

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WEB Du Bois key idea

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Used strong empirical work to demonstrate the problem of black was from difficulties they faced due to white supremacy - NOT due to their own inabilities

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Color line

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Socially constructed black/white division that is collective/individual, historical/existential, conscious/irrational

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Veil

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A sense of being shut out from other race's experience

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Double Consciousness

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Sense of being perceived as outsider by others, prevents formation of unified self

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Du Bois bio 2

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Founded NAACP - was disillusioned of power of academia to make changes, so he became directly involved in activism

Writings on race and class, colonialism as racism

Increasingly marxist

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Du Bois bio 3

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Returns to atlanta, persecuted during red scare, expatriates to Ghana and becomes communist

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Second Wave

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1925-1945

1) Saw black american culture as american, not african phenomenon

2) Moral and cultural advance essential (WHITIFICATION)

3) More attention to impact social conditions on black psyche

4) More use of standard sociological technique and empiricism

5) More detached observation (vs. activism)

6) Park believed in melting pot - prior patterns will gradually be abandoned in favor of white culture

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E. Franklin Frazier

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The Negro Family in the United States

Focus on social organization patterns of AA life and the stake they had in the urban arena

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Third Wave (post ww2)

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Asserting importance of African lens, colonialism as international racism

Asante - Afrocentrism
Sarah Susanah Willie

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Types of theories on race

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Stratification theory, economic theory (conflict), Social construction

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Stratification theory

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Asserts groups and individuals are arranged in social hierarchy according to characteristics.

Race is advantagous or disadvantaging

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Economic theory (conflict)

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Race is invention of capitalism that justifies some people becoming commodities, others become owners

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Social construction

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Race changes depending upon social context (symbolic interactionism)

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Goffman/dramaturgy

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best,flexible option

We can show different faces to different people and not be "out of face" - to our identity