149 - Section on Race, Gender, and Class. Intersectional Theorizing and Sociology: Legacies and Future Possibilities

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

In his important book The Scholar Denied, Aldon Morris acknowledges W.E.B. Du Bois as the founder of American Sociology. This panel picks up where Morris leaves off, when he observes that "the consensus remains" that Du Bois "was the first sociologist that engaged in intersectional analysis." We invite researchers to reflect on the legacy, evolving nature, and future possibilities of intersectional theorizing and empirical study, and its relationship to the discipline of Sociology. How can intersectional theorizing, methodology, and empirical study deepen understanding of American sociology? How can such understandings be inspired by an overlooked history of intersectionality, while also critiquing much of the discipline’s history of blindness to interlocking frames of race, class, and gender? In setting research agendas for today and tomorrow, what is gained by looking back at the work of Du Bois and his contemporaries, and looking forward to new chapters in this legacy of intersectionality?

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Intersectionality and Sociology: Legacies, Current Agendas, and Future Possibilities

Presider

• Saida Grundy, Boston University

Individual Presentations

• Confronting Confusion in Intersectionality’s Legacy: Are Race, Sexuality, Class, and Gender Mutually Constituted? - Allison Suppan Helmuth, University of Illinois-Chicago; Ivy Ken, George Washington University

• Du Bois' Global Sociology: The Intersections of Race, Class and Colonialism - Jose Itzigsohn; Karida Brown, UCLA

• Gendered Racialization: State Led Surveillance of Muslim American Men and Women in US Airports - Saher Farooq Selod, Simmons College

• The Politics of Erased Migrations: Toward a Relational, Intersectional Sociology of Latinx Gender and Migration - Rocío R. García, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant

• Tonya Frevert, UNC Charlotte