Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois

José Itzigsohn (Author) José Itzigsohn is Professor of Sociology at Brown University. He is the author of Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and the Dominican Experience in Providence.Karida L. Brown (Author) Karida L. Brown is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. She is the author of Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia.

"José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown have written a book that will stand out for a long time and be debated for years. The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois is a guidepost that enables the reader to absorb penetrating analyses of this great scholar pertaining to racism and lessons to address it. Seldom do we find analyses of an extremely complex thinker made crystal clear. This is such a work for anyone interested in a pivotal issue of our time." - Aldon Morris, author of The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology "This is a book for the times. The global protests in response to coronavirus disparities and anti-Black state violence have made it clear that the academy, too, must change. Sociology departments cannot continue to do business as usual. In The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois, José Itzigsohn and Karida L.Brown show that a Du Boisian sociology offers an analysis of our present moment where many other subfields of the discipline cannot […] The result of the authors' comprehensive approach is an inspiring immersion into the mind of someone who theorized from the depths of his own internal pain to the breadth of world empires, sweeps of historical time, and complexity of economic arrangements." (American Journal of Sociology) "In this necessary, timely, and thorough-going book Itzigsohn and Brown powerfully and provocatively reclaim and present the near century of W. E. B. Du Bois's sociological contributions with panache and undeniable rigor. Persuasive and well sourced, this book is sure to be a staple in homes and classrooms across the globe for years to come. A pathbreaking classic!" - Marcus Anthony Hunter, author of Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America "Itzigsohn and Brown offer a bounty of new analysis and a needed synthesis, a holistic view of the sociological contributions of a career that spanned from the 1890s to the 1960s... [The] book's greatest strength ... is in the excavation and synthesis of Du Bois's broad body of scholarship. Though scholars have made similar efforts ... Itzigsohn and Brown gift sociologists with what is surely the most comprehensive and ambitious summation of Du Bois's epistemology." (Social Forces) "Overall, this impressive monograph acknowledges and reclaims Du Bois's contributions to sociology. It is part of a growing movement that addresses the discipline's neglect of this scholar. I highly recommend this monograph for advanced undergraduate and graduate theory courses in sociology and the social sciences." (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) "Itzigsohn and Brown's The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois is evidence of Black sociology's enduring promise. Their book is more than an exegesis of Du Bois's sociological oeuvre." - Matthew Clair, Stanford University (Du Bois Review)