Reviews for On work, race, and the sociological imagination

The average rating for On work, race, and the sociological imagination based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-24 00:00:00 Valerian Legah A necessary but difficult read; the book assumes that the reader has a lot of schema, so it's not easy to keep track of all the connections between names, dates, historic events, etc. That said, the introduction and the section on Suzanne Césaire were the most poignant, and the sharpest undercurrent to the lie that Négritude was a solely male/masculinist movement. It was particularly intriguing to see how much of Aimé Césaire's hybridizing of plant/ecological imagery was also a strong part of Suzanne Césaire's writing and makes me wonder what kind of co-thinking the two did. My biggest problem, and this was probably a publishing issue, is that it doesn't include the original French of Nardal and S. Césaire's works. It was nice seeing translations, but as a reader of French I really would like to read the rhythm of their original pennings. This book needs to be referenced and brought into any class that teaches Négritude/francophonie.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-20 00:00:00 Donald Mitchell This is more of an academic text than a "reading for fun and profit" capital-b book, and of course I haven't the academic context it would naturally go in. But it's really interesting, so who cares.