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Over the years, sociologists have highlighted Du Bois’ postcolonial approach to the sociology of race (Itzigsohn and Brown 2020). Focusing on his analysis of the global colorline, sociologists have highlighted how Du Bois’ approach to race offered a distinctive tradition of ‘Du Boisian sociology’, which stressed the importance of historical and transnational analyses of the relations between racism, colonialism, modernity, and capitalism. The onus now falls on the sociological community to track the development of Du Boisian sociology beyond Du Bois’ work.
Ali Meghji will discuss an ongoing research project that attempts to address this development of ‘Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois’ by focusing on two figures: Franklin Frazier and John Gibbs St Clair Drake. While both Frazier and Drake are often presented as being micro-ethnographers of American society, Meghji highlights how they both developed global, comparative, and historical approaches to race, consequently developing the Du Boisian tradition.
