Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part one: Anglo-American Sociology and the Race Question
6. 1. From the Civil War to the First World War 13
7. 2. The Rise of the Chicago School 45
8. 3. From the Second World War to the 1960s 85
9. Part two: The Genesis of African American Sociology, 1896–1964
10. 4. W.E.B. Du Bois: Scientific Sociology and Exclusion 117
11. 5. Four ‘New Negroes’ 157
12. 6. Edward Franklin Frazier 204
13. Part three: From Explanation to Comprehension 249
14. Postface: Imagining a Different History 295
15. Notes 299
16. Bibliography 345
17. Index 371