Advancing Du Bois’s legacy through emancipatory environmental sociology

Postscript: Environmentalize Urban Sociology?

“…Efforts to environmentalize urban sociology should be intertwined with a broader push to radically transform the field by provincializing and decolonizing inherited approaches and by prioritizing scholarship that seeks liberation and justice (Carrera 2023;Feagin and Vera 2008). Critically situating the Chicago School is important, but it is not enough.…”

W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Book History

“…While conversations among and between sociologists, ethnographers, and historians offer ways to think about these questions at the nexus of several disciplines (Carrera 2023;Collins 2016;Meer 2022;Rabaka 2010Rabaka , 2023, philosopher Nahum Dimitri Chandler speaks more specifically to matters around The Philadelphia Negro. He calls for a more probing, slower reading, a "patient attention" (Chandler 2022:5) to Du Bois's writings that considers the larger intellectual frameworks out of which he wrote and produced scholarship.…”