Academic odyssey: The training of an African sociologist |
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Authors: | Tekle M Woldemikael |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Hamilton College, 13323 Clinton, NY |
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Abstract: | This article describes my experience of graduate training in sociology at an elite American university. As an African, I faced
cultural and intellectual pressures to adopt white middle class cultural norms and a Eurocentric worldview. The article critiques
American sociology, including symbolic interactionism, the sociology of the Third World and the study of race and ethnic relations.
I describe my personal encounter with American racism and the process that led me to conduct research on black immigrants.
I argue that my exposure to American sociology and experience of American society transformed me into a black marginal sociologist,
specializing in teaching and research on the African-American experience in the New World.
His forthcoming book,Becoming Black American, is being published by AMS Press. |
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