{"product_id":"soul-less-souls-of-black-folk-paul-c-mocombe-9780761842958","title":"Soul-less Souls of Black Folk: A Sociological Reconsideration of Black Consciousness as Du Boisian Double Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the 1960s, there have been two schools of thought on the origins and nature of black consciousness: the adaptive-vitality school and the pathological-pathogenic school. The latter argues that in its divergences from white American norms and values, black American consciousness is nothing more than a pathological form of and reaction to American consciousness, rather than a dual (both African and American) counter hegemonic opposing \"identity-in-differential\" (the term is Gayatri Spivak's) to the American one. \u003cbr\u003eProponents of the adaptive-vitality school argue that the divergences are not pathologies but African \"institutional transformations\" preserved on the American landscape. The purpose of this work is to understand black consciousness by working out the theoretical and methodological problems from which these two divergent schools are constructed, in order to arrive at a more sociohistorical, rather than racial, understanding of black consciousness. Using a variant of structuration theory to account for the sociohistorical development of black consciousness formation within the American social structure, author Paul Mocombe concludes that black American life is dual and pathological only in relation to a particular interpretive community, the black bourgeoisie or liberal middle class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul C. Mocombe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0761842950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780761842958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.27w x 0.32d","brand":"Paul C. Mocombe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216504598783,"sku":"9780761842958","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3d5fe84-7ce7-43e5-924f-1ed9fad20dff.jpg?v=1771991444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soul-less-souls-of-black-folk-paul-c-mocombe-9780761842958","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}