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Immigration and American society -- Dominican Providence -- In a land of opportunities? -- Entering the mainstream? -- Upward mobility? -- American identities -- Transnational identities -- Panethnic identities -- Becoming American

ABSTRACTW. E. B. Du Bois is finally recognized as one of the founders of sociology, a social theorist, and a methodological innovator. The recognition of Du Bois' work is accompanied by the emergence of a contemporary Du Boisian sociology. This sociology takes inspiration from the work of Du Bois, but it does not limit itself to his work. It aims to bring into sociology the work of scholars that so far have been confined to the margins of the discipline, among them, Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall. Yet, as Du Bois work gets increasing visibility, important debates emerge. One of these debates concerns Du Bois' relation to Marxism, and the relationship between Du Boisian sociology to Marxist sociology. Marxist sociologists argue that Du Bois' late work, as well as the work of Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall, belongs in the Marxist tradition. In this essay I argue that while Du Bois, Fanon, and Hall were sympathetic to Marxism, their work cannot be encapsulated within the Marxist tradition. The question of the human was central to their thought. Moreover, for them colonialism and racism structure identity, lived experience and politics under capitalism in ways that are not reducible to class and class conflict. The Marxist appropriation of their work diminishes its originality and precludes the discipline from questioning the coloniality of its historical silences and its epistemic limits.

There is a growing interest in decolonizing Sociology. Yet, there is no agreed upon definition of what this entails. In this essay I address two questions related to the decolonizing sociology effort. The first one is whether sociology has a mainstream and, if so, how can we describe it? In discussing this question, I also address the relationship between sociology and science. The second question is how do we go about decolonizing the discipline? I present the outlines of a proposal to decolonize sociology's methodologies and practices and I also discuss the differences between alternative approaches and the question of what labels should we use. I don't presume to have definitive answers to these questions. I offer these reflections as a contribution to the effort of rethinking sociology, a process that needs to be a collective endeavor.

El pensador afroestadounidense W.E.B. Du Bois no escribió sobre América Latina. Y, sin duda, el mundo cambió mucho desde su muerte en la década de 1960. Sin embargo, muchas de las cosas sobre las que pensó y a las que se enfrentó siguen estando ahí. La pregunta sobre quién es humano y sus investigaciones sobre las estructuras racializadas y neocoloniales del capitalismo y la colonialidad de las formas del conocimiento aportan una mirada que puede enriquecer la comprensión de la realidad latinoamericana. (José Itzigsohn, Nueva Sociedad)

El pensador afroestadounidense W.E.B. Du Bois no escribió sobre América Latina. Y, sin duda, el mundo cambió mucho desde su muerte en la década de 1960. Sin embargo, muchas de las cosas sobre las que pensó y a las que se enfrentó siguen estando ahí. La pregunta sobre quién es humano y sus investigaciones sobre las estructuras racializadas y neocoloniales del capitalismo y la colonialidad de las formas del conocimiento aportan una mirada que puede enriquecer la comprensión de la realidad latinoamericana. (José Itzigsohn, Nueva Sociedad)

Traducción del texto José Itzigsohn, "Class, Race, and Emancipation: The Contributions of The Black Jacobins and Black Reconstruction in America to Historical Sociology and Social Theory". The CLR James Journal, 19-1/2, 2013, pp.177-198. (DOI: 10.5840/clrjames2013191/211.) Traducción de Laura Judit Alegre, incluidas las citas bibliográficas. Publicación debidamente autorizada por la revista. Se respeta el sistema de citación de la edición original. Este texto tiene leves modificaciones propuestas por el autor del texto original.

The emergence of a transnational perspective has changed the study of immigration. Before the introduction of this analytical approach, the study of immigration assumed that migrants basically broke their ties with their countries of origin and that the processes of acculturation and assimilation of migrants to their new society were what mattered most. Transnationalism as a perspective has challenged these assumptions. A large number of studies have shown that migrants retain lasting ties with their countries of origin. The identities and social practices of migrants transcend national boundaries.