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The Aesthetic Dimension: From Science to the Politics of Poetry

In A tour de force publication, Scholar Denied launches a J’accuse of American sociology. “I lay bare,” Aldon Morris writes not mincing words, “the racism and power of dominant whites responsible for suppressing a seminal body of social scientific thought” (Morris, 2015: 226). W.E.B. Du Bois founded American sociology, the author maintains, inaugurating a tradition of cutting-edge, path-breaking empirical research a full two decades before Robert Park and the Chicago School. Scholar Denied also situates Du Bois as the first to demonstrate empirically that race was a social construct, that racial hierarchies do not otherwise exist, and that meaningful differences between groups stem from differences in social, political and economic conditions. His arguments are convincing; but I thinkMorris understates Du Bois’ contribution. Du Bois does not only inaugurate the idea that race is a social construct in American sociology, but in European sociology as well. For I can think of no other richly empirical study like The Philadelphia Negro that challenged, in the Old World, the firm belief in a hierarchy of the races, a hierarchy first erected by figures like Linneas, Blumenbach and Gobineau.