Alternative View of Modernity: The Subaltern Speaks
基于2021年美国社会学协会主席演讲，指出马克思、韦伯等经典社会学家遗漏了白人至上、殖民、奴隶制等关键因素，论证杜波依斯对现代性的分析更为优越，并呼吁发展解放社会学。
This article derives from my 2021 ASA presidential address. I examine how sociologists including Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and white American sociologists have omitted key determinants of modernity in their accounts of this pivotal development in world history. Those determinants are white supremacy, western empires, racial hierarchies, colonization, slavery, Jim Crow, patriarchy, and resistance movements. This article demonstrates that any accounts omitting these determinants will only produce an anemic and misleading analysis of modernity. The central argument maintains that the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois developed a superior analysis of modernity by analytically centering these determinants. I conclude by making a case for the development of an emancipatory sociology in the tradition of Du Boisian critical sociological thought.