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A Classic from the Other Side of the Veil: Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk
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Why has W.E.B. Du Bois not mattered more in sociology? In addition to being on the short list of the 20th century's most influential public intellectuals, Du Bois made substantial, if under recognized, intellectual contributions as a sociologist and social theorist. Among his nearly 2000 published writings, The Philadelphia Negro and Souls of Black Folk have all the qualities of classic works. Yet, neither has been officially canonized by sociology. The exclusion of Du Bois can be explained with tolerable plausibility by reference to his two key concepts in Souls of Black Folk: the veil and the double-self. One can only wonder what might have been significantly different about sociology, especially its theories of the Self and of field studies of race, had William James's most important student been allowed to matter.
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“The invisibility of those who live behind the veil means that there is no process of mutual recognition or true communication between racializing and racialized subjects (Lemert 1994 ).”
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“Du Bois argues that the color line creates different processes of self-formation among racializing and racialized groups (Lemert 1994 ; Rawls 2000 ).”
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“If the Black subject suffers misrecognition because their humanity is denied, the White subjects misrecognize themselves because they are unable to see their role in denying the humanity of the other”
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- Authors
- Lemert, C.
- Affiliations
- Wesleyan University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lemert, Charles
- Venue
- The Sociological Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1994-08
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 383-396
- ISSN
- 0038-0253 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-8525
- OpenAlex
- W2099628977
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociological Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › American Literature and Culture
- Keywords
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, The Philadelphia Negro, sociology of race, double consciousness, veil, self and identity, race relations, sociological canon, social theory
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