José Itzigsohn graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1995. He is the author of the forthcoming The Sociology of W. E. B Du Bois (NYU Press, 2020, (co-authored with Karida Brown), Developing Poverty (Penn State, 2000) and Encountering American Faultlines (Russel Sage, 2009). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on racial identity formation, transnationalism, cooperative self-management, and Du Boisian sociology. He is currently working on economic democracy in cooperatives in Argentina and on the sociology of W.E.B Du Bois.
| Itzigsohn, José Postcolonial Thought and Social TheoryPostcolonial Thought and Social Theory, by GoJulian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 248 pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9780190625146.. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews/Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 2018; 47 (5) : 587-588. |
| Bohrt, M. A., Itzigsohn, J. Class, Race, and the Incorporation of Latinos/as: Testing the Stratified Ethnoracial Incorporation Approach. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity/Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 2015; 1 (3) : 360-377. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Brown, Karida SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race/Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2015; 12 (02) : 231-248. |
| Itzigsohn, Jose Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. By ChristianKrohn-Hansen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 312 pages. $69.95. Int Migr Rev/Int Migr Rev. 2014; 48 (1) : 276-277. |
| Itzigsohn, Jose Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. By ChristianKrohn-Hansen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 312 pages. $69.95. Int Migr Rev/Int Migr Rev. 2014; 48 (1) : 276-277. |
| Itzigsohn, José Class, Race, and Emancipation. The CLR James Journal/The CLR James Journal. 2013; 19 (1) : 177-198. |
| 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. 2013; 19 (1-2) |
| Itzigsohn, José RACIALIZATION, ASSIMILATION, AND THE MEXICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race/Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2011; 8 (02) : 502-506. |
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Encountering American Faultlines.
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| Jose Itzigsohn & Daniela Villacres Migrant Political Transnationalism and the Practice of Democracy: Dominican external voting rights and Salvadoran home town associations. Ethnic and racial studies. 2008; 31 (4) : 664-686. |
| Jose Itzigsohn and Matthias vom Hau Unfinished Imagined Communities: The theoretical implications of nationalism in Latin America. Theory and Society/Theory and Society. 2006; 32 (2) : 193-212. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Giorguli, Silvia, Vazquez, Obed Immigrant incorporation and racial identity: Racial self-identification among Dominican immigrants. Ethnic and Racial Studies/Ethnic and racial studies. 2005; 28 (1) : 50-78. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Giorguli-Saucedo, Silvia Incorporation, Transnationalism, and Gender: Immigrant Incorporation and Transnational Participation as Gendered Processes. International Migration Review/Int Migr Rev. 2005; 39 (4) : 895-920. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Saucedo, Silvia Giorguli Immigrant Incorporation and Sociocultural Transnationalism1. International Migration Review/Int Migr Rev. 2002; 36 (3) : 766-798. |
Areas of interest: Du Boisian sociology, racialized identities, alternative economics.
I am a Du Boisian sociologist. My latest work is a book on the sociology of W. E. B Du Bois and its implications for the present. The book is titled The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized modernity and the global color line. I co-authored it with Prof. Karida Brown, from UCLA. In this book we argue that Du Bois was the founder of a sociological perspective, which we describe as a critique of racialized modernity. The book traces Du Bois’ the many contributions to sociological theory and urban and community sociology and shows that Du Boisian sociology has its own methodology, a methodology that expands the range of possibilities for the practice of sociology.
Following Du Bois, my work takes as its point of departure the global character and historical development of racial and colonial capitalism. My current substantive interests are the study of identity formation in a racialized world and the analysis of cooperative economic alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. I am a mixed methods researcher and I root my research in its historical context.
I am also the author of two other books. One titled Developing Poverty. This book analyzes the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The second book is titled Encountering American Fault-Lines. This book analyzes the experiences of Dominican immigrants in the United States. It shows how their trajectories and identities are shaped by the class and racial structures of American society. In addition I wrote several articles on immigrant identities, transnationalism, and Du Boisian sociology.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1995 | PhD | The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1991 | MA | The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1989 | BA | Hebrew University |
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2009. Encountering American Faultlines: Class, Race, and the Dominican Experience, NewYork, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. (Co-winner of the American Sociological Association Latino/a Sociology Section 2009 Best Contribution to Research Best Book Award).
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Eastern Sociological Society
| SOC 1270 - Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World |
| SOC 1871D - Sophomore Seminar in Sociology of Development |
| SOC 1872E - Global Sociology: Capitalism, Colonialism and the Making of the Modern World |
| SOC 2040 - Classical Sociological Theory |
| SOC 2260D - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: Boundaries, Identities, Inequalities |
| SOC 2260G - The Souls of Sociology: W.E.B Du Bois and Critical Sociologies of Race |
| SOC 2420 - Master's Thesis and Proposal Writing Seminar |
