Liberal Bourgeois Protestantism

Paul C. Mocombe is the President/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. A social theorist interested in the application of social theory to contemporary issues such as race, class, and capitalism (globalization), he is the author of over 30 academic journal articles and books including, Oppositional Culture Theory, The Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama, The Soul-less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness as Du Boisian Double Consciousness, A Labor Approach to the Development of the Self or Modern Personality: The Case of Public Education, and Education in Globalization.

• Acknowledgement1. IntroductionThe Globalizing or Westernizing Framework Sociological Theorizing of the Global Framework Focus of the AnalysisPART I: GLOBALIZATION, BOURGEOIS PROTESTANTISM AND AFRICANS IN AMERICA2. GlobalizationCapitalist HegemonyProtestant Turn3. Liberal Bourgeois ProtestantismThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismHybridization4. The Historical Constitution of African American Consciousness in GlobalizationThe Hybridization of Black AmericaAfrican Americans and the Protest EthicA Color-Caste SystemPART II: HYBRID IDENTITIES IN GLOBALIZATION5. The Historical Constitution of Grenadian Consciousness in GlobalizationResistance and Social ChangeGrenada in the Global Economy6. W.E.B. Du BoisOriginsDouble ConsciousnessClass Rational Social Structures7. Barack Hussein ObamaOriginsRace and Racial IdentityProtestantism of Obama 8. The “Others” in a World EconomyThe Other in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismHybrid Globalization under American HegemonyGlobalization and ModernityPost-Colonial Hybrid9. Conclusion: What is to be done?References Index

A great book for sociologists, critical race scholars, and those interested in globalization. K. K. Hoang, Choice, January 2013 Vol. 50 No. 05.