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X-WR-CALNAME:Du Bois Center Scholar Lecture: Jorge Vasquez
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DESCRIPTION:"The Future of Global Sociology and the Du Boisian Critique of 
 the Latin American Color Line"\n\n \n\nRSVP here.\n\n \n\nThis presentatio
 n focuses on W. E. B. Du Bois's and Irene Diggs's theoretical development 
 of a critique of the Latin American color line. Between 1930 and 1953\, Du
  Bois and Diggs studied the color line doing generative work re-framing so
 ciology as a powerful tool for analyzing white supremacy\, colonialism\, a
 nd capitalism. Their project included discussions with Latin American inte
 llectuals and activists\, especially from Cuba. Based on primary sources c
 ollected in the United States and Cuba\, this presentation addresses two c
 ritical aspects of Du Bois’s and Diggs’s analysis of the Latin America
 n Color Line. The first concerns the politics of knowledge underlying the 
 sociology of race in Cuba and the United States and how the analysis of st
 ructural racism faced tensions and paradoxes in this trans-American space.
  The second part shows how W.E.B. Du Bois's and Irene Diggs's global socio
 logy of the Latin American Color Line progressively became critical of Lat
 in American raceless discourses\, emphasizing their criticism of US imperi
 alism and connecting the struggle for racial justice in the Americas to na
 tional political struggles for economic equality. Finally\, this presentat
 ion highlights how Du Bois’s and Diggs’s contributions are relevant to
 day to the sociological critique of the global color line.\n\n \n\nJorge D
 aniel Vásquez is a Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Inter
 national Service at American University in Washington\, DC. His research i
 ntegrates global and transnational sociology\, comparative-historical soci
 ology\, social theory\, and sociology of race and ethnicity. His work has 
 been published in Gender & Society\, Du Bois Review\, Critical Sociology\,
  Journal of Historical Sociology\, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative-Hist
 orical Sociology\, and the Brazilian journal Sociologias. He received a Ph
 .D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is worki
 ng on the book manuscript The Sociology of the Global Color Line. W. E. B.
  Du Bois\, Irene Diggs\, and the Critique of Race in the Americas.
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LOCATION:Library\, W. E. B. Du Bois\, W. E. B. Du Bois Center\, Floor 22\, 
 Room 2220
SUMMARY:Du Bois Center Scholar Lecture: Jorge Vasquez
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