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Black Sociology in the Era of Black Lives Matter

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2022

Matthew Clair
Matthew Clair*
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Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: mclair@stanford.edu
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In 1973, on the heels of the hard-fought gains of the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist and civil rights activist Joyce A. Ladner edited a collection titled The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture. Bringing together an impressive set of Black writers and academics, the essays sought to make “an early statement on the development of Black sociology […and] to examine some of the historical forces which have acted upon Black sociologists, and to explicate some of the issues which are central to this new discipline” (Ladner [1973] 1998, p. xxvii). For Ladner, as she wrote in her introduction, Black sociology must be distinct from mainstream (White) sociology in its expressly normative commitment to using social science to “eliminat[e] racism and systematic class oppression from the society [and…to] promot[e] the interests of the Black masses” (Ladner [1973] 1998, p. xxvii). Whereas mainstream sociological theories had long been used to justify the subordination of Black people, Black sociology was an emergent discipline that sought Black liberation.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Fall 2022 , pp. 373 - 379
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

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