Du Bois and Diasporic Identity: The Veil and the Unveiling Project
Autor: | Judith R. Blau, Eric S. Brown |
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Rok vydání: | 2001 |
Předmět: |
Oppression
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Identity (social science) Gender studies Racism Economic Justice Solidarity 0506 political science Diaspora 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Sociology Cosmopolitanism 050203 business & management media_common Social theory |
Zdroj: | Sociological Theory. 19:219-233 |
ISSN: | 1467-9558 0735-2751 |
DOI: | 10.1111/0735-2751.00137 |
Popis: | Positioning Du Bois's arguments in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) within social theory enhances our understanding of the phenomenological dimensions of racial oppression and of how oppressed groups build on members' differences, as well as on what they share, to construct a cosmopolitan and richly textured community. Du Bois wrote Souls just at the beginning of the Great Migration but indicated that geographical dispersion would deepen racial solidarity, enhance the meaningfulness of community, and emancipate individual group members through participation in mainstream society while maintaining their black identity. Du Bois's writings have powerful implications for understanding how to promote racial justice, and contemporary readers might consider that they have implications for social justice more generally. An analysis of black newspapers that were published during the period of 1900 to 1935 illustrates how Du Bois's conceptions were woven into discourse and everyday practices. |
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