Reclaiming a Du Boisian Perspective on Racial Attitudes By LAWRENCE
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his article asserts that Du Boisian sociology included a strong role for racial prejudice in analyzing the conditions and dynamics of African American social life. The article examines Du Bois's empirical social scientific legacy with a special focus on The Philadelphia Negro and how he treated racial prejudice in this seminal work. It then examines the turn away from a concern with racial prejudice in modern sociological analysis and identifies the necessity of returning to the theoretical holism exemplified by Du Bois if sociological theory on race and racism are to advance. Lawrence D. Bobo is professor of sociology and Afro-American studies at Harvard University. He is co-author of Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (1998) and Racialized Politics: The Debate on Racism in America (2000). He has been a fellow at the Center forAdvanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York.
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