Seminar with Karida Brown (UCLA) on Du Boisian Sociology

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Lippitt House

Please join Karida L. Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA, to discuss the production of the forthcoming book, The Souls of Sociology: Articulating a Du Boisian Sociology. This will be an informal conversation about collaborative research and the co-authoring experience for this book project. 

This event is part of a year-long series of talks and workshops entitled “Critical Sociologies of Race and Empire,” developed by a group of faculty and students in Sociology and American Studies. This series will explore new sociological work on race and empire from critical perspectives such as postcolonial and Du Boisian sociology.

Karida Brown
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Bunche Center for African American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles 

 Karida Brown is a cultural sociologist of race whose current research centers on the relationship between social transformations and the racial self. She studies this phenomena across three Sewellian "eventful transformations"—the twentieth century African American Migration, the desegregation of the public school, and in the formation of institutional archives.

Her current research forges a new direction in the study of race and migration by examining the conditions under which the twentieth century African American Great Migration emerged, and the ways in which this historic process has impacted African American identity, culture, and subjectivity. Her manuscript in-progress, entitled "Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia," explores the ways in which African American identity was negotiated and transformed during this era of massive demographic, political, economic and cultural change. In this work, Brown reframes the African American Great Migration as a cultural and demographic process, arguing that it must be understood alongside its historical contingencies with racial slavery. 

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