Pioneering the Social Sciences at the Periphery

Pioneering the Social Sciences at the Periphery

This paper focuses on Howard University and a distinguished group of its scholars who, in the 1930s through 1950s across various fields of social science, broke away both from the mainstream U.S. disciplinary approaches of the time and from the institutional limitations of black universities to enga...

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Autor Principal: Johnson, Krista
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Publicado: Quaderni di Sociologia 2021
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:qds_4064 https://doi.org/10.4000/qds.4064 urn:doi:10.4000/qds.4064 en https://journals.openedition.org/qds/4064 2021-04-19T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/j9vk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Pioneering the Social Sciences at the Periphery Quaderni di Sociologia Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2421-5848 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0033-4952 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/qds Johnson, Krista This paper focuses on Howard University and a distinguished group of its scholars who, in the 1930s through 1950s across various fields of social science, broke away both from the mainstream U.S. disciplinary approaches of the time and from the institutional limitations of black universities to engage in transformative scholarship and intellectual theorizing on race and empire in the United States and around the world. This paper roots the intellectual history of “the Howard School” in the institutional architecture they forged at Howard at the time. I argue that, as part of a larger effort to confront the coloniality of knowledge and forge an academic and activist decolonial agenda, the Howard scholars established institutions and academic spaces of knowledge production that were unique in the American academy in their organization, mission, vision and methods of research, and played a vital role in sustaining critiques and alternatives to mainstream thinking on race.
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description This paper focuses on Howard University and a distinguished group of its scholars who, in the 1930s through 1950s across various fields of social science, broke away both from the mainstream U.S. disciplinary approaches of the time and from the institutional limitations of black universities to engage in transformative scholarship and intellectual theorizing on race and empire in the United States and around the world. This paper roots the intellectual history of “the Howard School” in the institutional architecture they forged at Howard at the time. I argue that, as part of a larger effort to confront the coloniality of knowledge and forge an academic and activist decolonial agenda, the Howard scholars established institutions and academic spaces of knowledge production that were unique in the American academy in their organization, mission, vision and methods of research, and played a vital role in sustaining critiques and alternatives to mainstream thinking on race.
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title_short Pioneering the Social Sciences at the Periphery
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