Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory fields by crafting a postcolonial social science. Contrary to claims that social science is incompatible with postcolonial thought, this book argues that the two are mutually beneficial, drawing upon the works of thinkers such as Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Go concludes with a call for a "third wave" of postcolonial thought emerging from social science and surmounting the narrow confines of disciplinary boundaries.

• The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
• Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (New Americanists)
• Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)
• U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War
• Four Sociological Traditions
• Connected Sociologies (Theory for a Global Age Series)
• The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)
• The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members (Alternative Criminology)
• Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918
• Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law