Abstract
The
purpose of this paper is to explore how racially gendered classed
power-relations structure history, knowledge and American Sociology's
historical memory and disciplinary knowledge production. In order to do
so, this paper will 1) utilize Cabral's (1970) theory of history to
center humanity as historically developed into a racially gendered
classed capitalist world-system, 2) employ intersectionality as a
heuristic device to see how knowledge is manipulated to normalize
dehumanization as well as to perpetuate exploitation and privilege by
denying “Othered' ” knowledges, and lastly 3) sociologically imagine
this racially gendered classed process in the “institutional-structure”
of American Sociology by exploring the ancestry of the concept of
“intersectionality.” In all this paper argues 1) American Sociology
under theorizes history, a central aspect of the sociological
imagination and production of new sociological knowledge, 2) American
Sociology reproduces a dehumanized theory of history per Marx's
“historical materialism” and 3) the structure of American Sociology's
knowledge is racially gendered classed, as illustrated in the collective
memory of the concept of “intersectionality.”
Journals should probably issue rules to the effect that "there should be no more than 1 numbered list of 3 or more items in any abstract." I'm also inclined to think that not much anything good comes from theorizing history.
Journals should probably issue rules to the effect that "there should be no more than 1 numbered list of 3 or more items in any abstract." I'm also inclined to think that not much anything good comes from theorizing history.
