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Saint-Arnaud Pierre |
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Titolo |
African American pioneers of sociology : a critical history / / Pierre Saint-Arnaud ; translated by Peter Feldstein |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-9121-2 |
1-4426-8732-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology - United States - History |
African American sociologists - History |
African American sociologists |
History |
Biographies. |
Electronic books. |
United States Race relations History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: L'invention de la sociologie noire aux États-Unis d'Amérique. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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From the Civil War to the First World War -- The rise of the Chicago School -- From the Second World War to the 1960s -- W.E.B. Du Bois: scientific sociology and exclusion -- Four 'new Negroes' -- Edward Franklin Frazier. |
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"In African American Pioneers of Sociology, Pierre Saint-Arnaud examines the lasting contributions that African Americans have made to the field of sociology. Arguing that social science is anything but a neutral construct, he defends the radical stances taken by early African American sociologists from unfair criticism by considering the racist historical context of the time in which these influential works were produced." "Examining key figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Edward Franklin Frazier, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Horace Roscoe Cayton, J.G. St Clair Drake, and Oliver Cromwell Cox, Saint-Arnaud reveals the ways |
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in which these authors' radical views on race, gender, religion, and class shaped the emerging academic discipline of sociology. Faithfully and elegantly translated from the original French, African American Pioneers of Sociology is an extraordinary study of the influence of African American intellectuals and an essential work for understanding the origins and development of modern sociology."--Jacket |
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