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Reading List by Quarter In Search of the Lost Canon in Sociology: A Teaching Resource and Annotated Bibliography Jennifer R. Myhre, Ph.D. De Anza College 2011 1 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................ 1 Setting Sociology within History ................................................................................. 4 SECTION ONE: The Gestation and Birth of Sociology, 1790s-1880s .......................... 6 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ................................................ 7 Harriet Martineau, How to Observe Morals and Manners ................................................... 10 Harriet Martineau, Society in America .............................................................................. 13 Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives ......................................... 18 Riesdesel‘s journal article on Martineau............................................................................ 22 The Women Founders: Sociology and Sociological Theory, 1830-1930 ................................ 23 African-American Social and Political Thought, 1850-1920 ................................................. 29 Racism, Dissent and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present ......................................... 35 SECTION TWO: The Institutionalization of Sociology in the U.S., 1890s-1930s ....... 37 The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper ....................................................................................... 38 Bailey and May‘s journal articles on Anna Julia Cooper ..................................................... 45 Ida Wells-Barnett‘s On Lynchings .................................................................................... 46 The New Woman of Color: Collected Writings of Fannie Barrier Williams ............................. 50 W.E.B. DuBois‘ The Philadelphia Negro ............................................................................ 54 W.E.B. DuBois‘ The Souls of Black Folk ............................................................................ 62 The Hull House Maps and Papers .................................................................................... 68 Jane Addams‘ Democracy and Social Ethics ...................................................................... 73 Jane Addams‘ Twenty Years at Hull House ....................................................................... 78 Journal articles about Hull House and Jane Addams .......................................................... 83 Race, Hull House and the University of Chicago ................................................................ 84 Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy ...................................... 86 Charlotte Perkins Gilman‘s Women and Economics ............................................................ 93 Charlotte Perkins Gilman‘s Social Ethics ........................................................................... 98 Rosa Luxemburg, Women‘s Liberation, and the Future of Society ..................................... 101 Journal articles about the construction of the early canon in sociology .............................. 103 2 SECTION THREE: The Colonized Strike Back—Global Sociology in the 20th Century108 Sociology in India ........................................................................................................ 109 Sociology and Social Anthropology in Asia and the Pacific ................................................ 112 Indian Sociology: From Where to Where? ...................................................................... 116 Journal articles on sociology in China ............................................................................. 118 At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West ............................................... 119 Latin American Social Thought ...................................................................................... 121 Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought .................................... 127 The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation ......................................................... 131 Journal articles from special volume of Current Sociology on Latin American sociology ....... 134 African Sociology: The Selected Essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane ...................... 136 Foundations of African Social Thought ........................................................................... 143 Sociologists in a Global Age .......................................................................................... 144 Rose Hum Lee‘s The Growth and Decline of Chinese Communities in the Rocky Mountain Region ........................................................................................................................ 146 Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings ................................................. 148 Irene Blea‘s Toward a Chicano Social Science ................................................................. 152 Journal articles about Chicano sociology, Chicano Studies and Chicana feminism ............... 154 Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought ........................................... 157 The Primal Roots of American Philosophy ....................................................................... 159 Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 162 Filling in the Gaps: Suggestions for Further Reading ....................................................... 163 References .................................................................................................................. 166 Appendix: Original Professional Development Reading List by Quarter .............................. 167 Partial Timeline of the Development of Sociology ............................................................ 173 3 In Search of the Lost Canon in Sociology: A Teaching Resource Jennifer R. Myhre, Ph.D. Introduction In my graduate training in sociology, the ―classics‖ we read in my sociological theory seminar consisted literally of three dead European white men: Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim. Indeed, while some classical sociology courses might add a smattering of other readings from U.S. white male sociologists from the Chicago School, or pre-sociology philosophers like Hegel or Comte, the ―big three‖ listed above make up the sociological canon in graduate programs throughout the country (Thomas & Kukulan 2004). As Joey Sprague (1997, p. 89) notes, the canon isn‘t just a list of influential readings—it is imbued with ―images of sacredness and power.‖ The observation that the core canon in the social sciences is comprised of the work of those who are affectionately referred to as ―the dead white men‖ is now almost a cliché. However, graduate training has yet to catch up with the rest of the contributors to the growth of our disciplines. While I very much appreciate the ―big three‖ and honor their legacy in my introductory classes, I began to discover a lost canon within sociology consisting of the contributions of early sociologists who were people of color and white women. I felt a sense of betrayal that I had never been taught about their work in my long years of graduate school. However, as the fields of women‘s and ethnic studies have taught us, we are often offered lies of omission in our academic training. These fields have made clear that many people who are not European and male have made important contributions to the social sciences if only we look for them. I have felt a huge thirst to learn more and to find my ―intellectual ancestors‖ within sociology. It was tremendously exciting, for example, to discover that Jane Addams, best known for her work with Hull House, was a sociologist who published articles in sociology journals during the late 19th century and was deeply involved in the network of sociologists who founded the first Ph.D. program in sociology in the U.S., at the University of Chicago. This is something I never, not once, learned in my eight years of graduate training in sociology. Similarly, while I might have learned in high school social studies that W.E.B. DuBois was an African-American activist who often had conflicts with Booker T. Washington, I never learned that he was a sociologist who wrote a pioneering work in urban sociology entitled The Philadelphia Negro. It is not enough simply to learn about such scholars, I must know read and study the contributions of such lost sociologists directly in the same way that I read and studied Marx, Weber and Durkheim. We can‘t teach what we don‘t know. So I built myself a reading list—a series of ―remedial classes,‖ so to speak, that would help me recover a history of work by white women and men of women of color in the early development of sociology, as well as the early work in sociology from sociologists in Asia, Africa and Latin America. I knew such a reading list could be built because other scholars have begun the work of digging out this erased history. I saw it as remedial because the contributions to sociology by Third World scholars, and by women and by men of color in U.S. are something that I should have been taught in graduate school. I also hoped that teaching myself about this lost canon would allow me to offer my students a legacy in sociology of voices that have been silenced but
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